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SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink | SpaceX seeks more cash, calls fiber "wasteful and unnecessary taxpayer spending."
SpaceX seeks more cash, calls fiber “wasteful and unnecessary taxpayer spending.”…
Instead of prioritizing fiber networks that offer better service and are more future-proof, the Trump administration ordered states to revise their plans with a "tech-neutral approach" and lower the average cost of serving each location. A previous Louisiana proposal drafted during the Biden administration would have spent $748 million for broadband deployment and provided fiber to nearly 95 percent of 140,000 eligible locations. Louisiana's draft plan said its analysis of low-Earth orbit satellite and fixed wireless technology suggests those providers "will not be able to scale into the future due to a combination of limitations on available spectrum, the impact of tree canopy on service availability, high customer density and potential demand, [and] the impact of 5G and/or other wireless backhaul on residential end-user capacity."
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