#ruralbroadband

US state and former officials say satellite internet like Starlink could reduce upfront costs for the $42B rural broadband program but may be more expensive long-term. #Starlink #RuralBroadband #SatelliteInternet #TechNews #BroadbandAccess #Infrastructure #USPolicy #TechEconomy

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/03/trump-plan-to-fund-musks-starlink-over-fiber-called-betrayal-of-rural-us/ “will strand rural Americans with worse Internet access in order to help Elon Musk secure public money for Starlink” #RuralBroadband #inequality #USPolitics

"Watch my latest political analysis on YouTube in 4K".

Is the analysis more accurate in 4K? What if I have only a slow #RuralBroadband connection?

"Musk could use the ‘Dept of Govt Efficiency’ for self-enrichment"

No effing kidding. He's already making a killing off #taxpayers. What's to stop him from axing competitor programs once he's Trump's hatchet man?

Certainly not his conscience. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/nov/30/elon-musk-government-efficiency-self-enrichment?CMP=share_btn_url

#Starlink #RuralBroadband #Broadband

Today was hard. I had to wake up very early (for me), but I couldn't go to sleep. I was worried about all the things that could go wrong, and I didn't have reliable backup transmission equipment. The backup I had would be difficult to set up and would not go more that 10/10 Mbps in the forest where I was going. So the basic equipment *had* to work.

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#RuralBroadband #Holocaust #DogsOfMastodon #Polesia

If you think those hashtags are random and chaotic, hold my beer.

Spent most of the day setting up a link for a live transmission in a beautiful radio desert surrounded by forests.

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#RuralBroadband

We run the painting class my mother gives as a hybrid, in Zoom and in person. She has just described the internet connection as being "narrow broadband", and honestly, that nails it!

#FirstWorldProblems #RuralBroadband

Old #RuralBroadband technology has to go. The terminal at the top of that mast was four metres higher a moment ago, before it was lowered. It wasn't working properly. 5 Mbps at most on a good day, and good days were rare. Putting the new GSM terminal on the mast gave poor results. Those people were cut off from the world, and they had serious sciencing to do.

One BTS we use is down after a storm and no one will fix it before Monday. #RuralBroadband is hard.

My office for the day. I love it around here. #Altnets #Altnet #Splicing #RuralBroadband #SilentSaturday

https://open.substack.com/pub/communityengagement/p/june-4-2024-three-democrats-and-republican I appreciate that Mr. Good showed but wish he’d take an interest in the pressing needs of the 5th district he represents. I especially liked this bit from Riley: “We need high speed internet and broadband in this entire district. And the money is there. We just have to bring it to the district to make things better” Yes. #virginia #uspolitics #ruralbroadband

The Affordable Connectivity Program is coming to an end. Native American communities will be hit the hardest. Rural areas are a challenge for ISPs – I know this, the business I'm in might be shutting down in the near future. I haven't made much money on it. No one can without subsidies. I am really sorry for customers who will be left with limited possibilities in the digital world here in Eastern Poland. But Europe is more civilized than the US – people here will suffer, but they'll survive. Native Americans got fucked by their government. Again. https://edition.cnn.com/2024/05/01/tech/tribes-congress-cuts-acp-internet-subsidy/index.html
#RuralBroadband

After seven years we're slowly starting to shut down the larger part of our small #RuralBroadband operation. Some of our customers will be completely cut off from the Internet again – they have to cellular range and no fiber. Our not so large infrastructure operator s losing their frequencies to bigger players. Some of our customers now worry that their new operators won't deal with their problems as well as we did. It's nice to hear we did a good job.

It looks like our small #RuralBroadband business will be shutting down. Not our fault – bigger players are taking over the frequencies we've been using. Now working hard on making sure our customers have a soft landing. It was fun while it lasted.

I had to remove this unused Ethernet cable very carefully so as not to damage the ivy. Time flies.

#RuralBroadband

Our #RuralBroadband customer yesterday. They had serious doubts whether we could achieve anything better than their 3 Mbps. Now they have 40.

I get various calls from my rural Internet customers. Like "Do you want to buy a goose? Alive or plucked, same price".

#RuralBroadband

I spent the last days mostly tending to an ill dog and a not very healthy #RuralBroadband network. Priorities are important. At least one of them is getting better.

#IdąPsięta