The funding under the Broadband Equity Access and Deployment Program is authorized by the $1 trillion 2021 infrastructure law US President Joe Biden championed
Yet more spending on infrastructure that was already paid for decades ago and will likely never get lit up.
Edit: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-book-of-broken-promis_b_5839394 for those who don’t remember or are too young to remember. We’ve literally already paid this over 10 fold… They’ve weaseled their way out of all the requirements every time. This is why any “infrastructure” bill pertaining to internet (at the very least) is a joke. This is just the government writing a handout check to ISPs.
That’s why they should make becoming an ISP something much more achievable legally, and not try to pay existing ISPs for something “universal”. Then the problem is going to be solved really quick, almost as quick as laying cables.
Supply and demand are real, because they provide motivation for both sides, the consumer and the provider. Not the case with such bills.
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Yet more spending on infrastructure that was already paid for decades ago and will likely never get lit up.
Edit: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-book-of-broken-promis_b_5839394 for those who don’t remember or are too young to remember. We’ve literally already paid this over 10 fold… They’ve weaseled their way out of all the requirements every time. This is why any “infrastructure” bill pertaining to internet (at the very least) is a joke. This is just the government writing a handout check to ISPs.
That’s why they should make becoming an ISP something much more achievable legally, and not try to pay existing ISPs for something “universal”. Then the problem is going to be solved really quick, almost as quick as laying cables.
Supply and demand are real, because they provide motivation for both sides, the consumer and the provider. Not the case with such bills.