The Telecoms Industry Spends $US230K a Day To Make Sure Your Broadband Sucks
The Telecoms Industry Spends $US230K a Day To Make Sure Your Broadband Sucks Share Photo: Justin Sullivan / Staff, Getty Images If broadband in the United States sucks, you can thank the telecoms industry, which is apparently so obsessed with maintaining our current crappy internet infrastructure that it spent a combined total of $US234 ($319) million lobbying against faster, cheaper competitors during the 116th Congress. According to a new study conducted jointly by Common Cause and the Communications Workers of America (CWA) union, telecoms giants spend nearly $US230,000 ($313,766) a day on...