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Trump’s FCC abandons the future: Starlink is a technology that gets worse every time it acquires a customer.
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Trump’s FCC abandons the future (permalink)
The corollary of “you treasure what you measure,” is “you don’t give a shit about what you stop measuring,” which is why Trump’s FCC has decided to stop measuring the speed of the broadband it subsidizes with billions in public funds:
https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/22/biden_broadband_benchmarks_are_bs/
Getting broadband to the American public has been a policy priority since 1996, when the Telecommunications Act established a duty for the FCC to produce annual reports about the progress of America’s sclerotic telcoms monopolies
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