And so when folks say, well, there was some money in the FAA to deal with these furloughs, well, yeah, the money is this pool of funds that are supposed to try to upgrade our airports so we don't rank in the, you know, bottom of industrialized countries when it comes to our infrastructure.
Existing.Mac members were supposed to be upgraded automatically, but many wound up having no e-mail at all for a day or two.
While Vista was probably never as bad as it was dinged for being, not long after its launch the operating system developed the reputation of breaking the very computers that it was supposed to be upgrading.
In the remaining lines some smaller railway stations were also closed in order to centralize the rail freight traffic at a nearby better equipped "micro-area" station where road feeder transport was supposed to be upgraded.
2) The PSTN was supposed to be Upgraded to Fiber Optics for All Services.
In states like Pennsylvania or New Jersey, 100% of their state territories were supposed to be upgraded to fiber optics, including rural areas.
As we pointed out in previous articles, the PSTN was supposed to be upgraded over the last 20 years to a fiber optic future, replacing the old copper wiring.
By 2000, both Santa Monica and San Francisco were supposed to be upgraded to fiber optics with speeds of 45 Mbps services or better, as Pacific Bell was supposed to spend $16 billion dollars -- and never spent the money and never built out the networks.
Ironically, they both just want to throw money, read your tax dollars and fees, at the problem instead of asking --Wasn't AT&T supposed to have upgraded rural areas?
