The head of a Biden program that could help the rural broadband has gone

1. Delays to obtain broadband to people. Some states are in the 1 yard line. A group is in the 5 -yard line. More will arrive more every week. These more swept changes will only cause delays. The administration could solve problems with the program through exemption and avoid deceleration. The blades could already be on the ground in three states, and could be on the ground in the middle of the country for the summer without the changes proposed to the selection of the project.

2. More people will get Starlink/Kuiper, and less people will get fiber connection. This could be dramatic, or could be measured, depending on where the administrator establishes the threshold limit, and if the states can grant projects above the new threshold on the basis of the value per dollar, or if they are forced to take the cheapest proposal, even if it provides a poorer service.

3. The 3 states with approved final proposals remain in limbo. They are currently carried out in the NIST review with respect to their proposed FPFR (the budgets that accompany their approved final proposals).

This makes no sense: these states are ready to function, and did the work on time, in the budget, and have plans that achieve universal coverage. If the administration is concerned with obtaining shovels on the ground, the states with approved final proposals must advance, as soon as possible.

4. Western Virginia (and soon additional states) that have completed their work, but have not approved the final proposals that also remain in limbo. They have a final proposal ready to begin with an exceptional service to all the houses and businesses of West Virginia. Like the three states with approved final proposals, only the current administration is between them and the obtaining of blades on the ground. If the Administration cares to do things, you must allow any state that presents a final proposal under the old rules in the coming months, progress with that plan.

5. A decision has not been made about how much of the existing progress the 30 states that are already carrying out the subcontracting selection should be maintained. The administration simply cannot say if the time, the funds of the taxpayers and the private capital that were spent on these processes will be wasted and how much the states will have to do again.

6. The wireless industry will be excluded from the Bead program. There will be few locations, if any, that are above any new cost limit that can be treated more at a lower price by fixed wireless satellites than low earth's satellites.