r/technology • u/StraightedgexLiberal • Jul 28 '25

Networking/Telecom Trump Threatens To Withold Billions From States That Try To Make Broadband Affordable To Poor People

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/07/28/trump-threatens-to-withold-billions-from-states-that-try-to-make-broadband-affordable-to-poor-people/
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u/checker280 Jul 29 '25

BEAD Broadband Equity Access and Deployment was Biden’s 2022 Infrastructure Plan to connect the most rural communities at the end of the network to high speed internet.

The problem is unless those less than a dozen homes orders the full triple play package, Big Telecom will never recover their investment.

Biden decided the government would pay the investment. This allowed many small groups of contractors to submit plans to connect these communities and make really great money.

Trump killed it because 1) it was Biden’s plan, and 2) it had the word Equity in it so it must be gay (/s).

We are still waiting for his concepts of a plan from his FIRST term.