A Decade Long Bureaucratic Obstacle Course Instead of Rural Broadband
by Brian Wang from NextBigFuture.com on (#6W8C2)
There is a BEAD Dashboard that shows how the Rural Broadband funding bill created an obstacle course for providing rural broadband. The bill created a pointless process of creating plans and maps and approving nothing. Each applicant got $5 millions near the start to fund them going through years of submissions, plan creation, map creation ...