Rural Broadband project? (Score 1)

I was in rural US when several potential service providers got federal money to "connect" rural America. Where I was at, it was long distance to get dial-up from most named providers. What we got was 768k dsl "if" we were close to the highway, which I wasn't. This means to me that the service providers leveraged existing services to collect federal money; the lines were there already, they just needed a tap. Sham, scam, thank-you ma'm. The dollars are not in rural US. Therefore, the services are not.