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/1803510661093392667And for the records, I actually rather liked the ACP program. And LibreQos passed 154 ISPs deploying it yesterday.
-- Donations Drive.
Dave Täht CSO, LibreQos