This “rural broadband” hoax has been perpetrated numerous times going back 15 years or more. Usually via the USDA’s “rural economic development” meddlers. The best way to serve rural areas then was via satellite and now it is via Starlink satellite at a fraction of the cost. There is not one “underserved community” that needs government help - maybe finally this joke will be ended.
Satellites work great as long as the sky is favorable.
DemonicRAT litmus test: Does it launder money?
Will Joe take to the Sunday shows to condemn this move, or is too far gone?
Interesting that I have fiber optic Internet service at our cabin in northern Minnesota despite being 20 miles from the nearest town of size and being located on an unimproved road by a lake. However, at home in a suburb of the Twin Cities, I cannot get direct fiber optic service. One reason is that more than a decade ago my community adopted a franchise system for cable TV providers which left my community with only two less than par options and shut out new competitors. Finally another provider is coming breaking the current government created oligopoly. More evidence that competition works and governments don’t.
When will he end the Obama Phone program?
Mediacom just came through my rural “underserved” neighborhood and laid cable. One of the workers told me it was a state grant. They seemed to be in a major hurry and got the cable run very quickly and then...disappeared. This the second time someone has done this. I found coax cable buried in my yard and asked a long time neighbor. He said they come in, laid the cable, and were never heard from again. I’ve got T Mobile home internet that I’m totally satisfied with and if I change it will be to Starlink.
” promised to provide $42 billion in subsidies to expand broadband internet in underdeveloped areas. This sounds good in theory,”
BULLCRAP. Why should anyone pay for someone’s internet service. Besides. “Broadband” is outdated already. By the time even an inch of new cable would be laid the next generation of satellite internet will be up and running.
I don’t have a land line anymore, but if anyone does are you still paying the “rural connectivity tax”
Biden was the democrats gold mine for spending and setting up Trump for a chaos list to clean up.
They will not sleep well for the next 3 years.
We are probably still spending billions on Al Gores dial-up modems.
And of cource they didn't do it for anyone else's good just their own greed.