<div dir="ltr">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.<br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jun 19, 2024 at 10:57 PM Dave Taht via Nnagain <<a href="mailto:nnagain@lists.bufferbloat.net">nnagain@lists.bufferbloat.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Some good rhetoric here: <a href="https://x.com/BrendanCarrFCC" target="_blank">https://x.com/BrendanCarrFCC</a></div><div><br></div><div>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??) </div><div><br></div><div>My pithy comment about the "fiber party".</div><div><br></div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(83,100,113);font-family:TwitterChirp,-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:15px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.03)">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!</span><br></div><div><br></div><a href="https://x.com/mtaht/status/1803510661093392667" target="_blank">https://x.com/mtaht/status/1803510661093392667</a><div><br clear="all"><div>And for the records, I actually rather liked the ACP program. And LibreQos passed 154 ISPs deploying it yesterday.</div><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7203400057172180992/" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7203400057172180992/</a></div><div>Donations Drive.</div><div>Dave Täht CSO, LibreQos<br></div></div></div></div></div>
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