Trump Administration’s Delay to Rural Broadband Program May Benefit Starlink

Republicans have exceeded many opportunities to criticize broadband capital, entrance and placement (beads) program for slow spreading in the past few years. Now it adds another 90 day delays.

Today, in a notification sent to state broadband offices, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTia) made a blanket 90-day extension to submit their final offers for beaded money. The reason given in the notice is “to improve efficiency, more technology-neutral approach, unnecessary red ribbon and placement.”

“Technology-Neutral” is the main statement here. Beaded was written to prioritize fiber networks, but expected to change their rules in favor Satellite Internet.

The only satellite internet provider will be eligible for the currently eloq Musk’s Starlink.

“All images are transferred to Starlink”, “Drew Garner at the Benton Institute for Benton Benon and Society, Drew Garner, Draw Garner.

President Donald Trump is preparing for the states as the beginning of this year Mass changes to beads2021 Infrastructure was adopted as part of the investment and the law of the law. Starlink’s Lutnick’s new rules are expected to be financed by $ 20 billion – over $ 4.1 billion, previously adopted Posted by Wall Street Journal in March.

Brian Allenby, the General Director General of the Maine Connection body, said that the office of Lutnick has signed the expected changes to the program, he said.

“We are ready to go. The ISPs are ready to go open. We are waiting for the management of this program,” said Allenby told CNET.

On the four-year process of the bead, fiber has always been the north star. The fastest, future continuous technology, but also is expensive to install satellite, especially in extremely distant areas. The service proposal that meets the cavity of technologies, beads and delay requirements such as StarLink is a place where the proposal does not offer a “alternative technology”.

Something that doesn’t matter if Starlink’s self does not prove to these requirements – it is probably something to change the bead with the upcoming rule change. Most recent Information from Ookla Around 79Mbps of Starlink’s speeds, it shows that those are around 100 MB / S required by beads. (Disclosure: The same parent company of Ook belongs to CNET, ZIFF DAVIS.)

Until recently, it was mainly left Starlink with the anger of beads. Musk He said in X In June, that beads “The taxpayer’s money is an ugly waste and cannot serve people in need.”

Broadband specialists said that the cause of a 90-day delay is to speed up the process.

“Bureaucratic, I can’t imagine anything less than the 90-day delay, there is nothing but to hear about new rules that should be adapted for it,” Garner said.