Free Cell Phone from the State for the poor

[808blogger]

Likely the biggest subsidizer of Hawaiian Telcom is the department of defense. Yes this is inference but there is a giant stinking elephant in the room, all the talk of USF is a tax not a tax is mute, the war in iraq and afghanistan are subsidizing phone service almost(yes almost) directly in the state of hawaii. Simply consider the owner of Hawaiian Telcom who is currently operating it at a "loss". When you can get 7 meg dsl in the boonies of puna for 30 bucks, and if i report an issue a guy with a truck and a $10,000 meter show up, the entire system is subsidized. And somehow everyone expects more and cheaper IN PUNA "outside of the second largest city in hawaii". The ONLY reason to install infrastructure here is to incur costs and loose money.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Carlyle_Group

EDIT: forgot to add the link