Evan Feinman, who directed the program of $ 42.5 billion on the actions, access and deployment (pearls) of large -band actions intended for the stoves to provide high speed Internet access to rural areas, left Propelica ‘S Craig Silverman. In an email sent to staff members, that Silverman shared screenshots BlueskyFeinman warned against the changes offered by the new administration which could “benefit the technology which offers slower speeds at higher costs for household paying the bill” in order to line the pockets of Elon Musk.
Bead was created in 2021, and the new trade secretary Howard Lutnick recently announced that the Commerce Department would revise the program, which, according to him, had “not connected a single person to the Internet” due to the management of the previous administration. In a statementLutnick called for a “neutral position in technology”, which would remove the preference for faster fiber connections and open the door for a satellite internet as that offered by Elon Musk Starlink. Lutnick also criticized “awakening mandates, favoritism towards certain technologies and heavy regulations”.
In the e-mail shared on Sunday, Feinman urged his colleagues to express themselves in favor of the abolition of “unnecessary requirements”, but warned against a gap of the fiber. The main thing is, he wrote:
The new administration seems to want to make changes that ignore the clear management set up by the congress, reduce the number of American houses and businesses that obtain fiber connections and increase the number that obtains satellite connections. The degree of this change remains unknown, but whatever the size, it will be a bad service for rural and small town America. To fail all or part of rural America with a worst internet so that we can make the richest man in the world even richer is another in a long line of Washington betrayals.
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