BEAD is short for Broadband Equity Access and Deployment and it allocated over $42 billion to build high speed internet in every state.The vast majority of American households were going to be connected with the fastest, best, most future proof technology.That's fiber broadband.And that would last at least for a generation.

Well, the Trump administration said every technology could be considered a priority broadband technology.They called this "technology neutral," but it was actually just a polite way of saying whatever is cheapest.

If you talk to some of the state broadband officers, and I've talked to a lot of them, the technology neutrality radically changed the money that went to satellite as opposed to went to fiber.Starlink was the biggest winner.They got 476,000 locations, or about $770 million of wins. So it was this huge change where Starlink now was a really core player, the biggest actually player in all of the providers.

Basically rural communities screwed out of getting fiber internet due to political corruption