Verizon Wants Government Help For Rural Partners
Sounds sketchy to me, abuse of government grants.
Verizon is asking the government to subsidize the build out towers and networks for small rural carriers so they don't have to personally invest any substantial money into their own personal network.
Since they don't actually own the towers, maintenance will be performed by the local companies and will not be the responsibility of Verizon Wireless.
Essentially Verizon is asking the government to foot the bill of their network expansion in the name of small carriers.
Sounds really really really sketchy to me.
Interesting...
I can't help but wonder why Verizon is doing so much to help small cellular companies. This one also clearly benefits Verizon, but shifting away from handset exclusivity is a little more difficult to explain.
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