StarLink

One of the major Internet problems was the lack of service to rural areas. Here is an article from Sept 2024. In 2021, the Biden Administration passed the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, which included a provision to give $42.5 billion to the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program to provide under-served and rural areas with internet access. To date, it has connected nobody The government refused to help Elon Musk’s company StarLink as reported in June 2024 President Biden’s slow rollout of a $42.5 billion rural internet program has increased criticism of the administration’s decision to yank federal funding from Elon Musk’s Starlink broadband service, which proponents say could provide faster, cheaper internet access to areas with little or no connectivity. From March of 2025 SpaceX’s Starlink satellite broadband offering touts an edge in service reliability over its cable counterparts, despite most of its customers residing in rural areas. Starlink now has 5 million users worldwide with 1.4 million in the US and is expected to grow to 8 million US users by the end of 2025