{"id":1237611,"date":"2025-03-06T14:47:21","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T19:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1237611"},"modified":"2025-03-06T14:47:21","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T19:47:21","slug":"starlink-benefits-as-trump-admin-rewrites-rules-for-42b-grant-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1237611","title":{"rendered":"Starlink benefits as Trump admin rewrites rules for $42B grant program"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Trump administration is eliminating a preference for fiber Internet in a $42.45 billion broadband deployment program, a change that is expected to reduce spending on the most advanced wired networks while directing more money to Elon Musk&#8217;s Starlink and other non-fiber Internet service providers. One report suggests Starlink could obtain $10 billion to $20 billion under the new rules.<\/p>\n<p>Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick criticized the Biden administration&#8217;s handling of the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commerce.gov\/news\/press-releases\/2025\/03\/statement-us-secretary-commerce-howard-lutnick-bead-program\">statement<\/a> yesterday. Lutnick said that &#8220;because of the prior Administration&#8217;s woke mandates, favoritism towards certain technologies, and burdensome regulations, the program has not connected a single person to the Internet and is in dire need of a readjustment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The BEAD program was authorized by Congress in November 2021, and the US was finalizing plans to distribute funding before Trump&#8217;s inauguration. The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), part of the Commerce Department, developed rules for the program in the Biden era and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ntia.gov\/blog\/2024\/every-state-and-territory-ready-implement-internet-all\">approved<\/a> initial funding plans submitted by every state and territory.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2025\/03\/starlink-benefits-as-trump-admin-rewrites-rules-for-42b-grant-program\/\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2025\/03\/starlink-benefits-as-trump-admin-rewrites-rules-for-42b-grant-program\/#comments\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump administration is eliminating a preference for fiber Internet in a $42.45 billion broadband deployment program, a change that is expected to reduce spending on the most advanced wired networks while directing more money to Elon Musk&#8217;s Starlink and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1237611\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,44,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1237611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-technology","category-unfiltered-rss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1237611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1237611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1237611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1237611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}