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January 26, 2021 Original image by Flickr user Verkeorg
Note: This is part five in an ongoing series. Be sure to check out the previous posts:
Part 1: Fiber to the Clubhouse: Pai Subsidizes Broadband for the Rich
Part 2: Broadband Boondoggle: Ajit Pai’s $886M Gift to Elon Musk
Part 3: Space-X Broadband: Coming to an Empty Traffic Island Near You
Part 4: Ajit Pai’s Broadband Legacy: Haste and Waste
Free Press co-founder and COO Kimberly Longey is someone you want to have on your side.
She helped build our organization from an idea on paper to the force it is today and that’s just her day job. In her spare time, she organized a municipal project to bring fiber internet to her town of Plainfield, Massachusetts, finally giving the people in this community much-needed high-speed connectivity after years of frustration with Verizon.
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December 24, 2020 Original photo by Flickr user Richard Drdul
Note: This is part three in an ongoing series. Be sure to check out the other posts:
Part 1: Fiber to the Clubhouse: Pai Subsidizes Broadband for the Rich
Part 2: Broadband Boondoggle: Ajit Pai s $886M Gift to Elon Musk
Part 4: Ajit Pai s Broadband Legacy: Haste and Waste
Part 5: Plan Fail: How Pai Imperiled a Rural Town s Fiber Network
Chairman Ajit Pai wants the world to think that the broadband-subsidies auction the FCC just concluded is a crowning achievement of his four years heading the agency.
The $9.2-billion Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) is Pai’s twist on the longstanding Universal Service Fund (USF), and while the money hasn’t gone out the door the auction bidding wrapped up earlier this month.
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SpaceX recently won rights to $885 million in government subsidies for high-speed internet from a Federal Communications Commission program.
The goal of the $20.4 billion program, called the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund, is to coax companies to bring high-speed internet service to underserved areas of the US.
SpaceX s subsidies will go toward Starlink, its growing satellite-internet service. In exchange, the company has to offer service to about 642,000 homes and businesses across 35 states.
The FCC rules require that SpaceX offer those customers internet service at rates that are reasonably comparable to rates offered in urban areas.