Some good rhetoric here: https://x.com/BrendanCarrFCC

I have been boggling at some of the hurdles required to get this funding. I
gave up on BEAD last year, as the goalposts seem to be forever receding and
mounted on unicorns dancing on cotton candy clouds. I know there is more
progress being made than meets the eye, but to me it's in spite of BEAD,
rather than because of it. ("in spite" meaning - you are going to subsidize
WHAT??)

My pithy comment about the "fiber party".

Bead has provided employment to a lot of telephone polishers, political
hacks, and paper pushers. I tried to point out that many of the goals could
be achieved by better software on wireless networks; the fiber party took
it over. And oh! Did they party!

https://x.com/mtaht/status/1803510661093392667

And for the records, I actually rather liked the ACP program. And LibreQos
passed 154 ISPs deploying it yesterday.

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