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Posted on 8/13/24 at 1:29 pm to TeddyPadillac
I paid $600 for equipment and $90/month.
Posted on 8/13/24 at 1:41 pm to Corriente Kid
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The $1.36 billion is federal money that Louisiana obtained through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.
No it's not. The government doesn't have any money, they only take ours. I want a rule where every time we talk about "federal money" or "govt funds" we are forced to replace those words with "taxpayer money". I think it would make people think about these types of things differently.
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It must all be allocated to specific projects by the end of the year, Iyengar told the committee. Construction on some projects begin as soon as next spring, he said.
And we wonder how governments are so corrupt and wasteful with taxpayer money. It's shite like this. Find out some way to spend this taxpayer money...forcing waste, corruption, and bad investment.
This is how you also get a net negative GDP..."the economy grew 2%!"
Yeah, but govt spending was 6% of GDP so it was really negative growth.
This post was edited on 8/13/24 at 1:43 pm
Posted on 8/13/24 at 1:45 pm to dewster
If Louisiana spends more than $1mill on this it will be among their worst investments ever. To spend over $1,300,000,000.00 is nonsense beyond belief.
Would not rank this in the top thousands of needs for our state.
Would not rank this in the top thousands of needs for our state.
Posted on 8/13/24 at 1:47 pm to AtlantaLSUfan
I just want phone service on the causeway.
Posted on 8/13/24 at 1:51 pm to AtlantaLSUfan
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If Louisiana spends more than $1mill on this it will be among their worst investments ever. To spend over $1,300,000,000.00 is nonsense beyond belief.
Would not rank this in the top thousands of needs for our state.
It's how you get $34 trillion or whatever it is in debt. And yet politicians take a victory lap for wasting this much of our money. It's like if your wife came back and said "I maxed out every credit card and then some" and wanted a high five and to be congratulated. It's fricking insane.
Government will never, EVER value a dollar anywhere close to the person who earned it. Because the govt had to sacrifice nothing to take it and there are no consequences for squandering it.
This post was edited on 8/13/24 at 1:53 pm
Posted on 8/13/24 at 2:04 pm to dewster
Color me skeptical. VERY skeptical because I doubt Jim and Josephine Sixpak, 20 miles from Nowhere in Rt 2, Transylvania, La will ever see 1 gig of broadband services.
Posted on 8/13/24 at 2:24 pm to dewster
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$1.36 billion
quote:So roughly $10,000 per location when a Starlink setup is under $300? Classic government.
140,00 locations
Posted on 8/13/24 at 7:46 pm to themunch
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I thought the new cables were all drilled.
I don't know about Louisiana but in Texas and I've seen in Arkansas, way out in the middle of nowhere the electric coop runs FO cables on the telephone pole. In the case of my neighborhood, they had to drill underground holes for the conduit. They pulled the conduit and cable, buried them in the yard and then into the house. Here we can choose 200 MGBS, 1 Gig and 2 Gig service. Quite the upgrade from 10 mgbs through buried telephone lines.
Posted on 8/13/24 at 7:48 pm to dewster
Because Bobby Jindal refused federal funding to do it 15 years ago....
Posted on 8/13/24 at 8:03 pm to dewster
Some of y’all are missing the point…
Yes, it will benefit low income rural people.
But, ever hear of The Internet of Things?
Like connected vehicles?
I work in agriculture and having total high speed broadband everywhere is a Godsend for our machines-
We will be able to use RTK guidance correction without a base station.
We will be able to remotely accept chemical prescriptions in the machine from a consultant’s office.
Technicians will be able to remotely troubleshoot and help diagnose repairs before they come to the farm.
All modern equipment already has the modem built in- we just need the connection.
Yes, it will benefit low income rural people.
But, ever hear of The Internet of Things?
Like connected vehicles?
I work in agriculture and having total high speed broadband everywhere is a Godsend for our machines-
We will be able to use RTK guidance correction without a base station.
We will be able to remotely accept chemical prescriptions in the machine from a consultant’s office.
Technicians will be able to remotely troubleshoot and help diagnose repairs before they come to the farm.
All modern equipment already has the modem built in- we just need the connection.
Posted on 8/13/24 at 8:06 pm to bknight00
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I live in a rural parish and I’ve been hearing this for over 10 years. Even had Mary Landrieu come to our parish to promote this. I’d love to know what happen to all the grant money back then when they were promising high speed rural internet.
I'm rural.
They finally ran mine two years ago.
Posted on 8/13/24 at 8:14 pm to lostinbr
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Not available in my neighborhood unfortunately. I’m close to LSU.
Pretty annoying that my cell phone has more bandwidth than my home broadband.
Damn. We can get up to 5 Gbps with AT&T. Overkill for pretty much any residential service.
You can't at least get 200 Mb+ from Cox?
Posted on 8/13/24 at 8:15 pm to X123F45
They have been boring all over Avoyelles Parish and running pipes the last few months. I think they have started pulling some finer optic but no one has broadband from this new system that I know of. Funny thing is some people live right off major highways and won’t be able to access it but they are running it to sections of northeast Avoyelles Parish which is nothing but swamp and woodland but that is where all the big money have their camps and hunting leases.
Posted on 8/13/24 at 8:39 pm to bad93ex
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Obama rolled out one of these programs too during his administration that totaled in the billions but nothing ever came of it. Most likely the same situation with this boondoggle, the money will get soaked up by administrative costs and fact-finding committees.
He also bailed out the banks and they gave themselves huge bonuses. He was pissed.
Dickheads are going to be dickheads and we pay for it.
Posted on 8/13/24 at 8:44 pm to dewster
It's like these people don't know that there are already at least 2 sets of wires running to virtually every house in the state, and have been since the 50's. But now they act like it is such an impossible task.
Posted on 8/13/24 at 8:52 pm to Loup
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That's a lot of money to spend for poor people to look at tik tok all day.
This is for the politicians that want to stream LSU games at the camp
Posted on 8/13/24 at 9:07 pm to dewster
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Officials say the result could be transformative.
In reality, it's only going to be transformative to someone's brother-in-laws bank account from the kick backs they're getting.
Posted on 8/13/24 at 10:37 pm to subMOA
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Some of y’all are missing the point…
Yes, it will benefit low income rural people.
But, ever hear of The Internet of Things?
I think you’re the one who is missing the point.
You don’t need $10,000 in government funding to get broadband to a farm.
Posted on 8/13/24 at 10:42 pm to PPBeastMode
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work in this industry and we have been waiting for 9 months for them to push it though in Louisiana….
Is there a way to see what companies are working in which parishes?
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