Wikipedia is|was wrong. Those edits were removed.

Do they have serious financial problems? Sure, management has said as much and it's not really in dispute. Anything is possible.

They also have assets with some value in them that they can sell. I'm not saying I'd bet against bankruptcy...but it's not a fact/given.

Under the prior more monopolistic policy (pre-Telecom Act of 1996) one of the carrots to retaining monopoly status in an area was that you must serve everyone in that region.

That did go away post-Telecom Act of 1996. I think the concern is that if you disallow cherry-picking than private investment will be far less. Thus you either end up with fewer areas served by new carriers/services or with far more government subsidies offered to encourage it.

I'm not saying you're wrong. But it's a tough judgment call. And one that, in the end, may simply result in six of one and a half dozen of the other. :)

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Good food for thought. I'd also respectively add that the focus shouldn't just be on hardware/software (and this means the budget needs to be similarly divided). To use IT in this way generally requires changes in school culture, teaching methods, etc. There's more to it than getting the right hardware/software in place.

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