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Zhi Zhu 🕸️

Trump Is Changing the Rural Broadband Rules. Guess Who May Benefit?

Biden threw billions at rural broadband, but the process was slow as molasses. Trump may speed it up—while lining the pockets of his co-president.
newrepublic.com/article/193127

"the #Broadband Equity, Access, & Deployment Program, or BEAD...$42.5 billion... Now that the #Trump admn has its hands on BEAD, it may take a lot of that #money —as much as half of it, or even more—and give it to #ElonMusk"

Headline from The New Republic: Yep, him Trump Is Changing the Rural Broadband Rules. Guess Who May Benefit? Biden threw billions at rural broadband, but the process was slow as molasses. Trump may speed it up—while lining the pockets of his co-president. by Paul Waldman March 26, 2025
#Musk#Corruption#USPol
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Nonilex

#Musk Is Positioned to Profit Off Billions in New Government Contracts

Within the #Trump admin’s #Defense Dept, #ElonMusk’s #SpaceX rocketry is being trumpeted as the nifty new way the #Pentagon could move #military cargo rapidly around the globe.

In the #Commerce Dept, SpaceX’s #Starlink satellite internet service will now be fully eligible for the federal govt’s $42B rural #broadband push, after being largely shut out during the #Biden era.

#kleptocracy #broligarchy
nytimes.com/2025/03/23/us/poli

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket preparing to launch in Cape Canaveral, Fla., in January.
The New York Times · Musk’s SpaceX Could Secure Billions in New Contracts Under TrumpBy Eric Lipton
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Dr. John Barentine FRAS

Odds are that if this holds up it will increase the chances of the full Starlink build out, with all of the known and suspected consequences of that. But also: "'Stranding all or part of rural America with worse Internet so that we can make the world's richest man even richer is yet another in a long line of betrayals by Washington.'"

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20

Ars Technica · Trump plan to fund Musk’s Starlink over fiber called “betrayal” of rural USBy Jon Brodkin
#Space#Broadband#Starlink
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Emeritus Prof Christopher May

Here in the environs of Lancaster we already have world-class broadband, courtesy of community broadband project (non-profit) Broadband for the Rural North (B4RN); now Lancaster & neighbouring urban areas' have a dedicated public sector broadband backbone for their own data heavy activity, partly built by B4RN in cooperation with other contractors.

NW Lancashire is avoiding the oligopoly of major broadband suppliers to keep our provision local!

#broadband #Lancaster
lancaster.gov.uk/news/2025/mar

www.lancaster.gov.ukNew 30km fibre optic network will enhance the Lancaster district’s digital infrastructure - Lancaster City Council
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Akkana Peck

The construction on NM4 apparently cut into our existing middle mile yesterday, so the whole county was without internet or cell signal (all providers except the county's microwave link, which residents can only access at county buildings like the library) all day yesterday.

A crane moves dirt by the side of a highway. Most of the cab is hidden behind a wall of dirt and a striped orange and white barrel. It has a label, "CAT", on its arm, and an American flag flying from the cab. A car's left-side mirror is in the lower right corner of the photo, showing a line of cars slowing down to pass the construction.
#NewMexico#broadband
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Megan Lynch (she/her)

Just did it myself.

This isn't just happening with my ISP. For-profit utilities that own copper phone lines have been trying to dump them. The public inundated the CA Public Utilities Commission to let them know we want our landlines. So the for-profit utilities are just trying to keep hiking prices instead to force customers to drop out.

I sent evidence of price hikes in 2 years.

If you've heard of or seen this, please write CA Attorney Gen antitrust and/or CA PUC.

#Monopoly#Broadband
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Mike

This might be a question that @Erased_Citizen might have a view on - all suggestions welcome from wherever
I've got a reply from my new fibre #broadband company about my wifi drop outs.

The suggestion is that my wifi is dropping out because I have too many devices connected to the router - 50, mostly 'smart plugs etc' - therefore increasing my line speed (at extra cost) will solve the problem. I'm currently on a 100/100 - their next package is 500/500 (and admitedly it's only another £4 / month but....)
I don't understand why increasing the line speed will improve the wifi capacity of the router - or is there more too it than my simple brain can comprehend?

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Mike

I think I've spoken too soon about the excellence of my new #broadband provider.
I'm getting frequent wifi dropouts which make streaming radio & TV almost impossible. My suspicion is that it's the shit router they supply but it could be that the fibre connection is unstable.
I've fired off a comprehensive report to their support email desk - and I'll await a response.

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Mike

Well my #CityFibre installation didn't happen.
As I pointed out in my grumpy email to #LitFibre - it's a good job I'm retired and didn't have to take a day off work.
Lit Fibre have been as helpful as they can be (and with some compensation thrown in) but it's not their fault - they are being messed around by City Fibre who do the installation. Equally City Fibre just don't seem to communicate.
As someone here pointed out - these organisations are run on a wing & a prayer - so it's not surprising that us poor consumers get poor service.
It's booked in for the 15th January - my fingers are crossed!

#broadband
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Mike

FFS
My Fibre Broadband installation was booked with Lit Fibre (a CIty Fibre company) on 3rd December and was confirmed for 2nd January.
I've had an email this afternoon saying it's booked for the 15th January.
I contacted Lit who's call handler kept saying "that's interesting" while looking at my file.....which didnt fill me with confidence. He's tried to get hold of CityFibre - who are doing the installation - and they don't appear to know why the date has changed. CityFibre are looking into this and will get back to the Lit Fibre guy and he'll ring me tomorrow with an update.

As far as I know my EE service is finishing on 2nd January - so WTF am I supposed to do if they insist on it being the 15th? Do I push Lit to supply me with a 5g modem? I hope it won't come to that!

This is the sort of crap that you expect from Openreach and their resellers - the brave new world of Alt-Fibre providers was supposed to be wonderful!

#broadband#CityFibre
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Jonathan B ✈️🪄👨🏻‍💻

Vodafone have sent me a new Wi-Fi Router in order enable my “Broadband Phone service”. It looks identical to the old one - the only difference I can see is that the new one is a THG3000 and the old one a THG3000g. Any ideas? Is it worth swapping? (I don’t use it for wifi-fi access anyway and we may well ditch Vodafone and the landline anyway soon for FTTP). #broadband #router #vodafone

The stickers on the bottom of two Vodafone routers - the top is the new THG3000 and the bottom the older THG3000g. The passwords, network names, QR codes and part of the serial numbers and MAC addresses are covered with grey areas.
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