Morgan Fletcher

This Convicted Felon Gets $1 Million a Year to Sell Obsolete Internet Service. You Pay for It.

https://www.propublica.org/article/alaska-telecom-subsidies-roger-shoffstall

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This Convicted Felon Gets $1 Million a Year to Sell Obsolete Internet Service. You Pay for It.

Roger Shoffstall spent three years in prison for tax evasion. Still, each year the federal government pays his Alaska company, Summit Telephone, for internet service thatā€™s slower than in most of the U.S.

ProPublica
May 19 at 11:27pmWeb
Show threadLovesThašŸ„§3d ago

@morgan Services like starlink are a terrible solution for most people I know who use it.

It is a excellent solution (if ignoring all the externalities) for Internet connections to the majority of the Alaska land.

Paying companies to server those areas is not effective.