I live in a rural area. It is not just the Internet. It is dependable landline ATT residential telephone service. It accessing cellular signals from distant antennas. All this is reminiscent of the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 which forced electric companies to run electric wires to rural Americans.
Doesn't reach my house. It involves distance from an antenna structure and terrain that blocks the line of sight. If you can't receive adequate signal strength you can't make or receive calls.
Elon offered to do it for a fraction of the price that they paid and he was gonna cover the entire area for a fraction of this price but they wouldn’t do it because it was Elon
I'm not even rural I literally live 5 minutes from an air force base, but because there's a creek about 40 wide and 20 deep at the bridge (which has power running on it) it's too much of a challenge to run fiber across even with these programs, I tried working with cable/internet providers and it's more regulation than they want to deal with because it's a creek. Tried Hughes net for a while and ultimately got Starlink and it's freaking awesome!
I did some research and checked into this! The ISPs don't require ANY infrastructure to do this; it's already in place; all they have to do is install the cabling and hook up homes! Simple, clean, and inexpensive, and "THEY" don't have to pay for a damned thing either; Uncle Sam is footing the bill!
I live in a rural area. Our internet is worse than rural areas of third world countries. Small islands in the Philippines have better. It is 20 down and 1.5 up.
thank the telcom act in the late 90's. regional telephone companies use to provide very expensive to build networks in rural areas because they had guaranteed revenue as the "provider of last resort" Telcom act made them sell their networks to resellers for about $6 a month which drained the revenue and the willingness to spend on low profit areas. meanwhile th reseller builds nothing, only leasing from someone else and getting the profit.
Starlink isn’t really that much more expensive. I’m rural with a lot of low income folks. Here cable internet is about $100 a month once you use up all of the discounts. Thats on old infrastructure. My Starlink is about $20 more. But it actually works. A small UPS or battery backup and it works during power outage. Our cable never did that. And I can pick it up and take it with me! Because I own it.
“Most rural areas”. YOU came to this conclusion HOW? Obviously, you grew up and spend all your time in a city. Entertain if you will and theory that most future jobs and small businesses will only survive with proper internet access. NOW, since people in the rural areas can’t afford this (according to you), then why bother to send them to school for grades 1-12. DID YOU PAY for your education from grades kindergarten-college or did your family rely on public education, arranged and paid for by the government/taxes?? If YOU were worth educating, then how do you have the right to determine “rural” families have no rights to the same education?? In the case of internet access, the same access to a job/business opportunities you have??
Starlink is 40 dollars a month in the philippines and 120 in the usa. This tells me that starlink could be cheaper in the usa. Why not just use starlink in rural areas and have a deal in place where the government and starlink make a special rate for those in rural areas? Seems pretty obvious to me.
1 KG of American corn cob sold in China is 90 cents, while the same American corn cob sold in America is 7 or 8 dollars per KG. Corruption is hugeeee is the United States 😅😅😂
I live on the west side of Odessa, TX and the only high speed internet we have is cellular or satellite. Not one company offers a high speed ground connection.
Rural WI resident with no high speed internet available. I knew this would never happen. Previously lived in rural GA that had fiber optic cable at the road for years, but was never brought up to ANY of our homes 😖
Just why is it so important that everyone get HIGH SPEED internet. It’s really BS. It always gets faster providing the same information 5 seconds quicker. Slow down. This is nothing more than an IT money grab, not much different than pharmaceuticals strategy.
Many areas have no internet service at all. An extended relative suddenly was care giver for 2 very young grandbabies. Without internet getting the custody and then adoption paperwork filed and reviewed took many more months than it needed to. Her own high school kids do not have the luxury of the internet for home work or research. On the farm they have firewood, a steer or two and a large garden, they are rich in nature
Lucky you! I live about a block away from our city’s cut off of supply service in this area…they literally just stopped digging trenches and pulling wire. I have been told they will NEVER come any further. It’s been 10 years now, so they told the truth. Yes, Starlink is more expensive but because of the only choices I have, so are the other providers because you have to pay for quantity not quality.😢
As someone who lives in a rural area that uses Starlink, I have to go 23 miles in to town to even see an LGBTQ member. They are few and far between and choose to live in cities and towns opposed to “out in the sticks.” We wouldn’t care if they were our neighbors, they just choose not to be. So basically our area would be disqualified because we don’t meet their standards through no fault of our own? Don’t get me wrong. We are content with Starlink and don’t intend to change, but this is lunacy! Why develop a program basically no one qualifies for? How much interest has that $42B accrued since the program was funded? Why not divert those funds to flood and fire victims? Come on, this is not being stewards of our tax dollars in any way!
We used to live in a rural area in Washington State, where there was no normal cable internet. We had Satellite internet. It worked fine. Why does the Government need to supply free to public. ???
Don't feel too bad. I live slightly rural (8 miles from a medium city) and they have been promising cable/fiber or something better that dial-up for over 20 years. Every time I call, they say, its in work and should be done in 5 years... Still waiting.
If is not in my "locale news paper of record", my only source of news and information, then it did not happen and that law dose not pertain to me. It is really hard for a news junkie to live this way, in this day and age.
We’ve been putting fiber in rural areas of Vermont , NH and Maine for last five years which is supposedly the phase one of this plan so maybe phase two got red taped but I can assure you that the infrastructure is being built. Fidium fiber is the name and no not a commercial
I live in North Scottsdale AZ in a large gated expensive community and we do not have reliable internet. It slows down or go out 3 times a week. They are talking about all these chip factories....how will Phoenix / area supply electric. There is no electric to give. Like CA we have small community that do not have water.
George Bush Jr pulled the Analogue Tv years ago and now no one has TV anymore. Basic Internet should be free to everyone. You have to know what is going on in the world.
Another problem I live in the mega-tropolis DFW Texas and have 250 mb Internet, my friends in Warsaw, Poland have gigabit Internet. This is ridiculous. I feel like I live in a third world country sometimes because of the incompetence of our government.
I recently upgraded from cable internet to fiber optics. My next step is to build a better PC as mine is 10 years old. It would scream up through Win7 but Win10 takes up too much resources to run and it sometimes struggles.
😅😂😂 listen to the end what did I tell you in the previous comment? Yes let us all rely on the low earth satellites. All those corporate scumbags did is switched from having a Democrat to a republican president elected it's all the same game
This would be good. I would be willing to forgive Trump for the Elon Musk fiasco. Actually it doesn't depend on me. That one act was deceptive. I saw a president side stepping the legislative branch. It revealed to me that he doesn't know that part of the bureaucracy changes side every four years. It showed a lack of control.
Then the government should get off their butts and fix the mail service and reopen all closed locale offices, because how is one suppose to communicate with one's government when everything is on line.
I live in rural Alaska. My community paid Millions to bring in high speed fiber optic internet. Now people are moving here. It's a great 'selling point' for our community. People can live rural and work from home. Good paying jobs are bringing in people and more tax revenue !
@@jayedwards7768 Taxpayers invested in our Internet. Now it's paying back more than expected. The use of tax money was the right decision. Everyone now benefits.
Thanks for the insights! Just a quick question: I have a safepal wallet with USDT, and I have the 12word phrase: ( proof inner hobby bounce blouse able donate virtual luggage cart morning ticket ). How can I send it to Binance?
President Trump knows what He doing and what he’s going to do with all of this. So be patient. We the people of America 🇺🇸 need a real blessing in this and the cost to the people, that they can afford, at a lower cost.
Why is the price of home internet and data cost more than twice than it does in Europe. That's stupid. Get on it. Elon and president Trump ss well. MAGA ✊✊
25 million sub count costing 42 BILLION I EAS CHARTER SYSTEM tech 20plus years and that kis over calculated loss nno company will takre on that rate of payback
Incompetence = Corruption
Try communist canada
Our government's waste of tax dollars is more than ridiculous it is tremendous!
You thinking so come live in communist canada worser yet
the dems didn't waste spending it. they stole it. which is worse.
I live in a rural area. It is not just the Internet. It is dependable landline ATT residential telephone service. It accessing cellular signals from distant antennas. All this is reminiscent of the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 which forced electric companies to run electric wires to rural Americans.
One word Verizon.
Doesn't reach my house. It involves distance from an antenna structure and terrain that blocks the line of sight. If you can't receive adequate signal strength you can't make or receive calls.
Starlink with DTC could solve your problem
@@Likeaworm and pay $50 per month for it.
@@hanshansen3885 its $120/month here after $400 startup.
Joey is the worst politician ever, lie after lie. Poster child for term limits, he would have never been President if limits were in place.
There should be age limits as well.
@@astarothzephyr Do you realize that President Trump will be 79 years old this coming June 14th??
@@astarothzephyrNOT age limit, compency tests!
@@jeffreylinde4381 Exactly. Some people are still sharp at 90 years of age while others decline in their 70s.
it's the puppet master doing the damage. which is his admin. behind the scenes.
Promises Made Promises Broken
Where's the money!
45B = 75M Starlinks. So hook up the 25M and use the balance for service costs.
Something is wrong with your math. The initial cost of equipment is $389. The service for $25 million could cost over $1.2 billion per month.
The government has no place providing internet to people. That’s not their responsibility.
@funbeak5605you mean welfare collector's
@funbeak5605 they obviously don't
"The most terrifying words in the English language are:
I'm from the government and I'm here to help."
― President Ronald Reagan
Where’s the money
DEI insanity projects
Biden pocket
Biden has proven he couldn't manage a lemonade stand.
It's not Biden it's his worthless handler's, but they're all leaving much wealthier as planned!
What is the deal with high-speed they keep saying mine is high-speed I don't see the difference
How many charging stations too, last I heard it was 8.
Did Trump build The Wall and made Mexico pay for it?
Things take time if you want to do it right.
I'm one of those people. I cannot afford Starlink as I'm on a fixed income and there is very little competition out here. God's many Blessings to all.
Elon offered to do it for a fraction of the price that they paid and he was gonna cover the entire area for a fraction of this price but they wouldn’t do it because it was Elon
@@pattygarcia3504starlink is not high-speed. that might be why. but Elon would never lie to you, right??????
@ it wasn’t Elon, who said it was JD Vance on the campaign trail and it was substantiated
@ I can't imagine who did this to him! 🙂
To address your point Richard, I too am on a fixed income. Internet and cable just aren't affordable.
I'm not even rural I literally live 5 minutes from an air force base, but because there's a creek about 40 wide and 20 deep at the bridge (which has power running on it) it's too much of a challenge to run fiber across even with these programs, I tried working with cable/internet providers and it's more regulation than they want to deal with because it's a creek. Tried Hughes net for a while and ultimately got Starlink and it's freaking awesome!
X and Qarddin are going to be merged. Easiest money in my life
With Elon and Trump now working with Qarddin is going to absolutely blow up
Don't have high speed internet at my home in 4 years , don't need high speed internet to live.
Biden administration: what’s a billion or 42 between friends?😂
Highly likely there will be partnerships between X or Tesla with Qarddin
I did some research and checked into this! The ISPs don't require ANY infrastructure to do this; it's already in place; all they have to do is install the cabling and hook up homes! Simple, clean, and inexpensive, and "THEY" don't have to pay for a damned thing either; Uncle Sam is footing the bill!
Spectrum received both Federal & State grants 3 yrs ago in NC and has yet to get internet to the rural areas.
I live in a rural area. Our internet is worse than rural areas of third world countries. Small islands in the Philippines have better. It is 20 down and 1.5 up.
Then move lol
thank the telcom act in the late 90's. regional telephone companies use to provide very expensive to build networks in rural areas because they had guaranteed revenue as the "provider of last resort" Telcom act made them sell their networks to resellers for about $6 a month which drained the revenue and the willingness to spend on low profit areas. meanwhile th reseller builds nothing, only leasing from someone else and getting the profit.
That's deceiving.Most rural area, people are very poor and cannot afford anything like starlink... already checked
Starlink isn’t really that much more expensive. I’m rural with a lot of low income folks. Here cable internet is about $100 a month once you use up all of the discounts. Thats on old infrastructure.
My Starlink is about $20 more. But it actually works. A small UPS or battery backup and it works during power outage. Our cable never did that. And I can pick it up and take it with me! Because I own it.
“Most rural areas”. YOU came to this conclusion HOW? Obviously, you grew up and spend all your time in a city.
Entertain if you will and theory that most future jobs and small businesses will only survive with proper internet access. NOW, since people in the rural areas can’t afford this (according to you), then why bother to send them to school for grades 1-12. DID YOU PAY for your education from grades kindergarten-college or did your family rely on public education, arranged and paid for by the government/taxes?? If YOU were worth educating, then how do you have the right to determine “rural” families have no rights to the same education?? In the case of internet access, the same access to a job/business opportunities you have??
Temptationycity
I know plenty of people who live in rural areas that aren’t poor. Most poor people are poor because they make bad financial decisions.
@ from beginning to end. Some are just plain dumb. But for the most part I agree.
You let prisoner's have it! Then none of us want it!
Prisoners can't vote. It's all about voter oppression and this Green New Flibber Flabber as well.
Starlink is 40 dollars a month in the philippines and 120 in the usa. This tells me that starlink could be cheaper in the usa. Why not just use starlink in rural areas and have a deal in place where the government and starlink make a special rate for those in rural areas? Seems pretty obvious to me.
1 KG of American corn cob sold in China is 90 cents, while the same American corn cob sold in America is 7 or 8 dollars per KG. Corruption is hugeeee is the United States 😅😅😂
Government turned that option down.
I live on the west side of Odessa, TX and the only high speed internet we have is cellular or satellite. Not one company offers a high speed ground connection.
Rural WI resident with no high speed internet available. I knew this would never happen. Previously lived in rural GA that had fiber optic cable at the road for years, but was never brought up to ANY of our homes 😖
Should have hedged this election on Qarddin 😂😂
Is it too late to get a 250k grant to study my toenails?
I live in a small town in Wyoming. They buried fiber thru our town 4 years ago and have not yet hooked up a single dwelling
President Trump for America and American citizens...
People probably aren't moving to the places they want to because of the internet speeds.
The truth needs to be revealed about this.
Just why is it so important that everyone get HIGH SPEED internet. It’s really BS. It always gets faster providing the same information 5 seconds quicker. Slow down. This is nothing more than an IT money grab, not much different than pharmaceuticals strategy.
Many areas have no internet service at all. An extended relative suddenly was care giver for 2 very young grandbabies. Without internet getting the custody and then adoption paperwork filed and reviewed took many more months than it needed to. Her own high school kids do not have the luxury of the internet for home work or research. On the farm they have firewood, a steer or two and a large garden, they are rich in nature
Rural areas do not have much i ternet available at any speed.
Big pharma American tactics
@bobwhite2 Roughly 25 million households does not have an internet connection.
I live in a rural area, my wireless internet works great. I'll keep my tax money thanks
Lucky you! I live about a block away from our city’s cut off of supply service in this area…they literally just stopped digging trenches and pulling wire. I have been told they will NEVER come any further. It’s been 10 years now, so they told the truth. Yes, Starlink is more expensive but because of the only choices I have, so are the other providers because you have to pay for quantity not quality.😢
As someone who lives in a rural area that uses Starlink, I have to go 23 miles in to town to even see an LGBTQ member. They are few and far between and choose to live in cities and towns opposed to “out in the sticks.” We wouldn’t care if they were our neighbors, they just choose not to be. So basically our area would be disqualified because we don’t meet their standards through no fault of our own? Don’t get me wrong. We are content with Starlink and don’t intend to change, but this is lunacy! Why develop a program basically no one qualifies for? How much interest has that $42B accrued since the program was funded? Why not divert those funds to flood and fire victims? Come on, this is not being stewards of our tax dollars in any way!
We used to live in a rural area in Washington State, where there was no normal cable internet. We had Satellite internet. It worked fine. Why does the Government need to supply free to public. ???
It is not for free. BEAD lowers the cost.
Makessense that Trump would just back another upcoming altcoin instead of Bitcoin for more profits
I don't think they are. We just got it in my neighborhood. It is freakin' expensive. Stickin' with Spectrum.
I'm in rural Florida. Internet is terrible here . Unreliable and slow.
Don't feel too bad. I live slightly rural (8 miles from a medium city) and they have been promising cable/fiber or something better that dial-up for over 20 years. Every time I call, they say, its in work and should be done in 5 years... Still waiting.
follow the money... who got the contracts ????
get them starlink..
Unbelievable.
They have new a specification, they came and moved all the wires/cable another 4" apart from others.
NEVER LET GOVERNMENT MANAGE IT
Can I get in on the RFP
If is not in my "locale news paper of record", my only source of news and information, then it did not happen and that law dose not pertain to me. It is really hard for a news junkie to live this way, in this day and age.
We’ve been putting fiber in rural areas of Vermont , NH and Maine for last five years which is supposedly the phase one of this plan so maybe phase two got red taped but I can assure you that the infrastructure is being built. Fidium fiber is the name and no not a commercial
If Trump puts at least $200,000 in Qarddin, I am going all in
I live in North Scottsdale AZ in a large gated expensive community and we do not have reliable internet. It slows down or go out 3 times a week. They are talking about all these chip factories....how will Phoenix / area supply electric. There is no electric to give. Like CA we have small community that do not have water.
Have they heard of the thing called Star Link? What a bunch of clowns in the government!
Ever heard of costs?
Starlink is $$$$$
Frontier wont put internet in my RV even though my wheels are gone and never will be moving
It was the terms of the law requiring strings attached.
This broad band AND EV chargers is all a scam. Over $50 BILLION and NO ONE is connected and less than 15 chargers! ‘Rat scam
I'm not waiting. I got Starlink! Government should not be handling this type of thing. They have already shown they are not competent to get it done.
Should have given the contract to musk and starlink like they were initially going to do
George Bush Jr pulled the Analogue Tv years ago and now no one has TV anymore. Basic Internet should be free to everyone. You have to know what is going on in the world.
Correct! Internet is a public utility.
No one has TV anymore? You dont mean the physical television but the programming right?
@@hanshansen3885 Of course, programming. The poor that can not afford the expensive cable or satellite bill. Or $80 internet bill.
Another problem I live in the mega-tropolis DFW Texas and have 250 mb Internet, my friends in Warsaw, Poland have gigabit Internet. This is ridiculous. I feel like I live in a third world country sometimes because of the incompetence of our government.
Follow the money and who it went to ........and then hold them accountable and jail time ... for not doing a job they were supposed to do
Each state have made their own plans
I recently upgraded from cable internet to fiber optics. My next step is to build a better PC as mine is 10 years old.
It would scream up through Win7 but Win10 takes up too much resources to run and it sometimes struggles.
Nothing new . Same old bureaucratic red tape BS ..
Exception = when it comes to salary raises for government employees
There is a high speed internet available to everyone including rural areas it's called starlink!.
Big pharma business model
😅😂😂 listen to the end what did I tell you in the previous comment? Yes let us all rely on the low earth satellites. All those corporate scumbags did is switched from having a Democrat to a republican president elected it's all the same game
From then on Jesus began to preach: “Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.”
✨Matthew 4:17
Employmenteacherous
They also were screwing up Starlink due to their crap policy lol
Nobody ever said a liberal wasn't an idiot.
Manageracism
This would be good. I would be willing to forgive Trump for the Elon Musk fiasco. Actually it doesn't depend on me. That one act was deceptive. I saw a president side stepping the legislative branch. It revealed to me that he doesn't know that part of the bureaucracy changes side every four years. It showed a lack of control.
I would rather have water to the country people
.. neglecting the south .. Mister Biden
Boondoggle to Network companies like Cisco, Lucent, Lumen, AT&T, etc.
Again, a waste of money. Better if government issues each household a voucher strictly for this use.
I mean our internet is just fine and has been for over a decade…wtf is this
Qarddin will go 100x after launch on Binance
That’s a lie. My city has amazing broadband. Maybe it’s your conservatives governor 😂😂😂😂
Show me the money ! 10%for the big guy
musk can provide Starlink in rural areas
Shelly Cooper and Robin Cole for prison.
MONEY WOULD BE IN BIDENS POCKET
Starlink
Access to the internet is not a right and should not be funded by government (taxpayers).
Then the government should get off their butts and fix the mail service and reopen all closed locale offices, because how is one suppose to communicate with one's government when everything is on line.
I live in rural Alaska. My community paid Millions to bring in high speed fiber optic internet.
Now people are moving here. It's a great 'selling point' for our community.
People can live rural and work from home.
Good paying jobs are bringing in people and more tax revenue !
@ Are you saying you are unable to mail a letter or make a phone call?
@ Not the government's role yo provide internet. When you say ''community'' do you mean private money or taxpayer money?
@@jayedwards7768 Taxpayers invested in our Internet. Now it's paying back more than expected. The use of tax money was the right decision. Everyone now benefits.
Maybe send more money to Israel and Ukraine, while hunderds of thousands are homeless, and can’t afford healthcare.
0:40 mismanagement/incompetence ... not money laundering...?
Thanks for the insights! Just a quick question: I have a safepal wallet with USDT, and I have the 12word phrase: ( proof inner hobby bounce blouse able donate virtual luggage cart morning ticket ). How can I send it to Binance?
This was an epic failure!
I have it.
Fox lies more than Trump
Who the hell cares next
President Trump knows what He doing and what he’s going to do with all of this. So be patient. We the people of America 🇺🇸 need a real blessing in this and the cost to the people, that they can afford, at a lower cost.
Interviewee wants a gig with Foxx Newws
Why is the price of home internet and data cost more than twice than it does in Europe. That's stupid. Get on it. Elon and president Trump ss well. MAGA ✊✊
Starlink is the answer.
Quit screwing around and get Starlink. Internet problem solved!
Maga trump ASAP
Day 1. Don't worry.
20mbps is fine more is just for useless videogame activities 😂 focus more on bills that do something relevant
25 million sub count costing 42 BILLION I EAS CHARTER SYSTEM tech 20plus years and that kis over calculated loss nno company will takre on that rate of payback
Help Elon
Good things dont happen over night. It takes time to get things done the right way.
People don’t need anymore internet. They need to actually start being of service to another.
DOGE 🎉 1/20/2025😅