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Director of rural broadband program exits with a warning about shift to ‘worse’ satellite internet
In a Bluesky post, ProPublica’s Craig Silverman shared an email sent to colleagues by BEAD director Evan Feinman after exiting his role with the end of his term on Friday.
In an email sent to staffers, which Silverman shared screenshots of on Bluesky, Feinman warned against changes proposed by the new administration that could “benefit technology that delivers slower speeds at higher costs to the household paying the bill” in order to line Elon Musk's pockets. In a statement, Lutnick called for a “tech-neutral stance,” which would do away with the preference for faster fiber connections and open the door for a shift toward satellite internet like that offered by Elon Musk’s Starlink. 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.
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