The rural broadband subsidies would work much better if they were not available to large ISPs. The scaling effects of last mile internet installations are basi

The rural broadband subsidies would work much better if they were not available to large ISPs. The scaling effects of last mile internet installations are basically negligible. For instance, a neighborhood of a few hundred houses in the mountains outside of Silicon Valley started their own fiber to the home ISP. It cost something like $10K per house to wire it up and monthly payments are much lower than starlink. We need more of that. If some small rural ISPs decide they are better off expanding than getting subsidies, that’s fine. Stop paying future subsidies.