Whoops: Cable Giant Cable One Accidentally Sends Rival Email Saying Their Top Priority Is Killing Community-Funded Broadband from the saying-the-quiet-part-out-loud dept Telecom monopolies have spent decades trying to kill off public broadband efforts.Since blocking you from being able to determine your town or city’s infrastructure needs is widely unpopular, telecom monopolies usually have to resort to paying nonprofits, consultants, captured regulators, or think tankers to demonize community broadband via a rotating array of cherry-picked bullshit.Cable One believes its good-faith participation in challenge processes is important for two reasons: 1) to ensure that limited public funding is used for the purpose intended extending critical broadband services to unserved/underserved areas; and 2) to protect the network/infrastructure and customer service investments of companies already providing qualifying service in the area.In short, regional cable monopolies want the lion’s share of taxpayer dollars going to their perpetually, mysteriously, unfinished and fraud-laden digital divide efforts in unserved areas (20-40 million Americans lack broadband of any kind).They most definitely don’t want public taxpayer money going to something like a popular locally owned utility, municipality, small ISP public-private partnership, or popular local cooperative that’s actually going to challenge monopoly control (83 million Americans currently live under a broadband monopoly)."