We've given huge hunks of BEAD to satellite. Now what?

Silicon Valley bros Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos regularly move companies, workers (and major media outlets) around like pawns on a chessboard. It’s all just a big ego game for them. But when it comes to closing the digital divide in America, their antics could negatively affect a lot of people in rural areas who just want to get a decent connection to the internet. You’d think a country as big, affluent, and technically savvy as the U.S. could accomplish the task of closing the digital divide. But alas, now that Musk’s Starlink and Bezo’s Amazon Leo have won big hunks of the Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment eligible locations, they’re whining and complaining about the rules. Starlink made a big fuss about being included in BEAD. And even though President Trump and Elon Musk unfriended last summer, the Trump Administration still went out of its way to make major changes to BEAD so that a lot more eligible locations were awarded to satellite.