Re: [AFMUG] OT: (and sorta not OT) Future of BEAD

2024-11-12 Thread Ken Hohhof
With so many people being able to get 5G Home Internet and Starlink, I can't believe the R's aren't trying to scale back the BEAD program. And focus on affordability rather than speed, like maybe bring back something that looks like ACP to make Starlink affordable. But maybe it's too late to g

Re: [AFMUG] OT: (and sorta not OT) Future of BEAD

2024-11-12 Thread Dev
The letters that constitute BEAD represent words likely not to be popular after January (well, except Broadband). Are there clawback clauses baked in somewhere? I’m not really a gambler, but if I had to bet, things that had those letters would be on the short wish list to try to reel back in. Th

Re: [AFMUG] OT: (and sorta not OT) Future of BEAD

2024-11-12 Thread Mark Radabaugh
> On Nov 8, 2024, at 1:59 PM, Mark - Myakka Technologies via AF > wrote: > > Ken, > > From experience, any government grant/loan project will cost at least 50% > more to do than if the government wasn't involved. > > I think we are too deep into the process to yank it back. Most states ha

Re: [AFMUG] OT: (and sorta not OT) Future of BEAD

2024-11-12 Thread Dev
As I heard in a hallway conversation at Wispapalooza once: “Remember, the large print giveth, and the small print taketh away” I ran into a guy who stretched and got RDOF, then found out once sentence in the paperwork that was subject to interpretation almost bankrupted him. No thanks, I’d lik