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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.
https://newrepublic.com/article/193127/trump-rural-broadband-rules-musk
"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"
𝗝𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗮 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘀-𝘂𝗽
If anyone has a Draytek Router, you maybe experiencing Boot Loops
https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2025/03/broadband-isps-report-uk-connectivity-problems-with-vulnerable-draytek-routers.html
The Draytek website is down, so Firmware upgrades are currently unavailable. This looks like a hack tbh.
ISPreview UK · Broadband ISPs Report UK Problems with Vulnerable DrayTek Routers UPDATE3A number of broadband ISPs from across the United Kingdom (and possibly other countries too), such as ICUK and Andrews & Arnold (AAISP), have this weekend n
#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
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/23/us/politics/spacex-contracts-musk-doge-trump.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=E7E65CB6-8C02-416C-97B6-4C61119E4373
The New York Times · Musk’s SpaceX Could Secure Billions in New Contracts Under Trump
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.'"