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Techdirt
TechdirtSep 25, 2026
Trump Republicans Made A Historic Mess Of This Massive Broadband Grant Program
I've written a lot this year about how Republicans hijacked the $42.5 billion Broadband, Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program (created by the 2021 infrastructure bill) and immediately set about weakening oversight standards, eliminating enforcement of stuff like broadband affordability, speed, and equitable deployment, and making it a priority to heavily subsidize Elon Musk for...
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Techdirt
TechdirtSep 21, 2026
Trump Admin Still Being Cagey On $21 Billion In Hijacked Broadband Grants
I've written a lot about how Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos convinced Republicans to redirect billions in taxpayer money away from future-proof fiber optic upgrades, and toward their low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellite broadband networks they’d already planned to deploy. Curious behavior for two extremely-rich gentlemen who both repeatedly claim to loathe subsidies and corporate welfare.The...
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Techdirt
TechdirtSep 17, 2026
Trump Says California Can’t Stand Up To Big Telecom If It Wants Taxpayer Grants
As the federal U.S. government has given up on consumer protection and corporate oversight, states have filled the void with various degrees of success. That's been particularly apparent in areas like telecom, where the corruption-fueled death of federal privacy and net neutrality protections have been replicated in a handful of states like California, which passed...
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Techdirt
TechdirtAug 31, 2026
Texas Politicians Slowly Realize Elon Musk Hijacked Billions In Taxpayer Broadband Grants
Back in June I wrote a feature for The Verge about how Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos had convinced Republicans to redirect billions in taxpayer money away from future-proof fiber optic upgrades, and toward their low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellite broadband networks they'd already planned to deploy. Curious behavior for two extremely-rich gentlemen who both repeatedly...
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Techdirt
TechdirtAug 21, 2026
Trump FCC Weakens U.S. Broadband Speed Goals To The Benefit Of Elon Musk And Comcast
I've spent the better part of a lifetime studying and writing about the way corrupted lawmakers and U.S. telecom giants work hand in hand to erode U.S. broadband standards and mapping so they can obscure the way corruption and monopoly result in limited broadband competition -- resulting in shitty, expensive, spotty, and slow U.S. internet...
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Techdirt
TechdirtAug 19, 2026
Libraries Beg Brendan Carr To Back Off Plan To Make U.S. Broadband Shittier, More Expensive
Back in June, Trump FCC boss Brendan Carr announced he'd be reviewing the FCC E-Rate program with an eye on “reforms.” Generally, when Brendan Carr promises "reforms," usually what he means is either "I'm going to destroy this program," or "I'm going to illegally make changes to this congressionally-mandated program that ensures telecom giants like...
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Techdirt
TechdirtAug 6, 2026
Trump Admin Hijacked $21 Billion In Taxpayer Money Earmarked For Internet Access And Then Went Mute
I've written a few times now about how the Trump administration hijacked a $42.5 billion broadband investment fund included in the 2021 infrastructure bill, stripped away requirements that the resulting broadband be fairly deployed and affordable, and instead redirected billions of dollars to Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos in exchange for slower, more expensive satellite...
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Techdirt
TechdirtJul 30, 2026
Trump Republicans Are Destroying Decades Of Policy Progress On Affordable Broadband
Quick background: the $8 billion FCC Universal Service Fund (USF) applies a small surcharge on traditional phone lines to fund broadband expansion to unserved rural homes, schools, and libraries (of which the U.S. has a lot thanks to rampant telecom monopolization). While the USF, like all government programs, hasn't been absent of fraud (usually at...
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Techdirt
TechdirtJul 27, 2026
Court Partially Reverses Trump Attacks On Law That Tried To Make Sure Broadband Deployment Isn’t Racist
Earlier this year the Trump administration decided to illegally dismantle the 2021 Digital Equity Act, which was intended to help push internet access into long-neglected parts of the U.S. The Act took very vague aim at digital redlining, or the longstanding practice by telecom giants of refusing to upgrade (or at times even timely repair)...
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Chris Till
Chris TillJul 10, 2026
UK Telecoms Strategy written by a Degrowth Communist
This is getting predictable, but we do need to do a lot of nationalising.
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