Telecoms take HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS for national broadband, but don't want to deliver

by kos

I want one of these deals:

After making a big, bold promise to wire every corner of America, the telecom giants are running away from their vow to provide nationwide broadband service by 2020. For almost 20 years, AT&T, Verizon and the other big players have collected hundreds of billions of dollars through rate increases and surcharges to finance that ambitious plan, but after wiring the high-density big cities, they now say it's too expensive to connect the rest of the country. But they'd like to keep all that money they banked for the project.

It's awesome to get paid for something you decide you don't want to do, right?