[NNagain] Carr blasts BEAD

[le berger des photons]

maybe they'll pay some attention to you in 18 months when the only ISP
doing well will be ones that are either owned by the Rothschilds or trade a
month of internet for some eggs and a chicken.

On Wed, Jun 19, 2024 at 10:57 PM Dave Taht via Nnagain <
nnagain at lists.bufferbloat.net> wrote:

> 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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> Dave Täht CSO, LibreQos
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