@vasov@...
I respectfully submit that it is a false dichotomy to propose that lack of "government" (haha) investment means that a country is doing nothing.
And don't forget that all the government is doing is taking money from your hard work and giving it to businesses to do the work.... which they will eventually turn into "making money" (which someone else here seems to indicate is an evil).
But history has shown that the government investment doesn't necessarily produce the best, cheapest or most beneficial solution to a problem. I'd argue that it rarely achieves that, actually.
Governments will spend the money on solutions (and with businesses) that will most help them stay in power. Maybe pulling actual broadband across the country is exactly the most expensive, least efficient, and potentially worst way to provide the service. Unfortunately, with the government ready to hand out tons of your money, which company wouldn't want to sign on to it? Even if it is a mistake, with so much money being thrown about nobody will question it.
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