Evan Fainman outside the manager of the stock, access and publishing program (Bead) of $ 42.5 billion ProPublicaCraig Silverman In the Bluesky post today. Bead aims to bring a high -range internet to areas with a lack of services in America, many of which are rural. Silverman shared screenshots from an email at the section level that Feinman sent on Friday, as he warned that there will be “very negative results” if the program turns from fiber construction operations to the use of satellite -based internet such as what Elon Musk’s Starlink provides.
This month, Minister of Commerce, Howard Lottenic A “strict review” of the program announcedHe said, “He did not link a single person with the Internet,” which he blamed for “waking up and favoritism towards some exhausting technologies and regulations.”
A pill was presented as part of 1 trillion dollars in the infrastructure infrastructure bill in the Biden era. The program provides $ 42.5 billion of grants to the states for use in building the Internet infrastructure that would provide at least 100 Mbps and 20 Mbps to parts deprived of the country. The program gives priority to the Internet -based internet, but it allows other types as it does not prove that the fibers are continuing.
The transition from the beginning of the program to the actual network building was a long and multi -step process that started with FCC Map for us It moves through state proposals, challenges facing FCC map, and choosing internet service providers that will be paid to build a new service. According to Government progress trackingThree states – Delaware, Louisiana and Nevada – reached the last step to issue a final proposal for the public comment before the site stopped regularly.
Lutnick’s advertisement reflects a lot of the program’s constant reaction to the program, some of whom say that Biden prevented Starlink from being part of it for political reasons, such as New York Times books On March 5. the Times FCC denial notes, Recently in 2023This prevented Musk from obtaining $ 886 million in supporting comprehensive service boxes for the separate rural broadcast program. The Federal Communications Committee said that the company cannot “prove that it can provide the promised service.”
The rules that Lutnick may propose may benefit Musk, which “is expected to get up to $ 4.1 billion” under the preliminary rules of the bead program, according to the Wall Street Journal In March. The port said that Starlink could get up to $ 20 billion under Lootnick’s repair of the program.
In his employee e -mail, it appeared below in Silverman shots, Feinman wrote that reform could be behind “every or part of the countryside in America with worse Internet so that we can make the richest man in the world richer,” adding that it will be “another in a long line of treason by Washington.”
