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

No union donors sounds sketch

I would earnestly like to hear how this is a solution.

As i see it from the most realistic standpoint, given that somebody has to install and maintain it there simply isn't enough real-world interest in going beyond the current mega corp investment structure we have now. Tell me which local elected council will earmark tens of thousands for locals to dig into the ground and install infrastructure like that and which locals are actually likely to do it, and do it well.

While I agree in principle, I just don't see it actually happening.