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AT&T “complies” with law requiring cheap Internet by ending a service in NY (arstechnica.com)
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AT&T pulls 5G home Internet from New York to protest state affordability law.

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[–] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 118 points 2 days ago

I remember when the US government paid AT&T to get fiber to the curb of American homes.

Then AT&T didn't. And then the US sued AT&T to get the money back and into the hands of US Americans. Wireless internet is an end-around having to fulfill those promises of a wide bandwidth future. And here is the evidence for that.