Right now, part of the taxes you pay on your cable bill goes to installing cable to the rural areas... with cable they can now chose internet providers. But all that money billionaires want to get their grubby little hands on it.
The Trump administration has released new rules for distributing $42.5 billion in U.S. rural broadband funding, easing restrictions on Starlink and other satellite providers competing for support under the Biden-era program.The Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) said June 6 it will now apply a technology-neutral approach in awarding subgrants under BEAD, or Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment.Congress created the program in 2021 with a focus on fiber to help close the country’s digital divide.Announcing a review of BEAD in March, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick blamed “woke mandates, favoritism towards certain technologies, and burdensome regulations” for the program not yet connecting any users.
Now I am sure $280 million in campaign help did not influence his decision in anyway... yeah right!
SpaceX was provisionally awarded nearly $900 million in rural broadband subsidies toward the end of the first Trump administration in 2020, under a separate program called the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF), managed by the Federal Communications Commission.However, the FCC said in 2022 that SpaceX failed to demonstrate how it would meet RDOF requirements, and upheld the denial in 2023 after an appeal.
Funny how that works... Everyone says Starlink doesn't met the legal requirement but now... poof that all vanishes.
Then we have the company that has the rights to the 2GHz band that Musk is coveting.
Light Reading in an article says,
EchoStar said it has made multiple attempts to set up a meeting between company executives and FCC Chairman Brendan Carr. "All of these requests ... have gone unanswered," the company said.According to one analyst, that's not a good sign.
Of course not... Musk wants it!
Part of Carr's inquiry into EchoStar focuses on EchoStar's use of 2GHz spectrum. That's the spectrum that SpaceX wants the FCC to take away from EchoStar so that SpaceX can use it. SpaceX, of course, is backed by billionaire Elon Musk, who was a prominent supporter of President Trump until their very public social media bickering last week.
Is the trump administration working on the title of the "most corrupt" administration yet?
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