Matt,
Ditto to everything you said! I'm in SW Bartholomew Co. It looks like our State government is getting serious, tho. Next Monday a site will open called the "Indiana Connectivity Program" (I can't find a link, yet) that will allow us to ask for help. They claim to have $250 million to spend to incentivize ISPs to extend coverage to unserved households. That's more than 5 times as much as the Biden infrastructure plan will allocate to Indiana 2 years from now! I'm less than 2 miles from the end of a coop's fiber network, so I've got hope. However, I'm also on Elon's waitlist. Good luck to you!
And Yet ...
The Biden admin is behind a bipartisan Infrastructure Bill that is defined to do precisely squat about broadband access until AFTER the hogtied FCC completes its new and improved broadband access maps! Acknowledge that the FCC is crippled beyond help and then define your alternative program to be dependent on the success of that crippled FCC. "That's some Catch, that Catch 22"
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Re: Looking forward to starlink
Matt,
Ditto to everything you said! I'm in SW Bartholomew Co. It looks like our State government is getting serious, tho. Next Monday a site will open called the "Indiana Connectivity Program" (I can't find a link, yet) that will allow us to ask for help. They claim to have $250 million to spend to incentivize ISPs to extend coverage to unserved households. That's more than 5 times as much as the Biden infrastructure plan will allocate to Indiana 2 years from now! I'm less than 2 miles from the end of a coop's fiber network, so I've got hope. However, I'm also on Elon's waitlist. Good luck to you!
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And Yet ...
The Biden admin is behind a bipartisan Infrastructure Bill that is defined to do precisely squat about broadband access until AFTER the hogtied FCC completes its new and improved broadband access maps! Acknowledge that the FCC is crippled beyond help and then define your alternative program to be dependent on the success of that crippled FCC. "That's some Catch, that Catch 22"
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