22 Jul
2022
22 Jul
'22
11:41 p.m.
Once upon a time, William Herrin <bill@herrin.us> said:
The overwhelming majority of the penalties were in the 4 and low 5 figures -- pocket change for a network business. The exceptions were:
Some of these companies are very small rural outfits, where a 5 figure fine isn't exactly pocket change. I wonder how the supply chain issues are affecting this. I know a rural electric company that had a (just before pre-RDOF) grant for setting up Internet that couldn't get the routers they'd ordered and paid for; they were back-ordered for months. They had to scramble and get loaners out of a reseller's demo pool to meet their grant timeline requirements. -- Chris Adams <cma@cmadams.net>