Summary
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear a case challenging the legality of the FCC’s Universal Service Fund, which raises $9 billion annually to expand phone and internet access.
The 5th Circuit Court previously ruled the fund unconstitutional.
It held that Congress improperly delegated legislative power to the FCC and that the FCC unlawfully transferred authority to a private company, the Universal Service Administrative Company.
The FCC defends the fund as lawful, citing congressional authorization. A decision is expected by June, amid heightened scrutiny of federal agency powers.
Who’s to say the purpose of “Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment” is to connect houses.? Or, to put it another way, NASA has received billions of dollars and also hasn’t connected any houses. It’s easy to understand why: NASA doesn’t do that.
Who is to say that BEAD is trying to make last mile connections? If they’re not them your entire premise is wrong. It’d be like complaining that NASA has spent hundreds of billions of dollars and still hasn’t launch a single commercial passenger.
I live in a rural area and we’re seeing a pretty rapid expansion of broadband connections. We had DSL and cable in some places but now there are large fiber deployments to new neighborhoods and the DSL and cable areas are having fiber service made available over time.
Just using caps lock and BILLION doesn’t make a good argument. Nor does pretending that broadband expansion isn’t happening or creating arbitrary inapplicable standards for programs (“NASA hasn’t flown commercial passengers: WORTHLESS”).
You should have just stopped there and started learning what USAC is and what it spends its money on; instead of screaming that the sky is falling because you personally don’t understand a federal program.