https://www.engadget.com/accessible-affordable-internet-for-all-act-introduc... https://www.majoritywhip.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/SxS-for-AAIA.pdf $100 BILLION! All in 100% Government debt and price raising subsidy rammed at gunpoint down the future of every person and family in the US, half of which will never actually be spent on providing service, but instead stuffed in their pockets of power profit and control, just as all prior "broadband" initiatives were since Al Gore invented the internet. You're fucking insane to vote for this shit, or them, again. There are 135M households in the US, at under $1000 per each for a 10G cooperative censorship spyveillance and freedom loving p2p free service by ALL of them, not just "rural and underserved", covering the ENTIRE COUNTRY, that's at MOST $135B one time, 10 years of totally free surfing before hardware fails or needs upgraded, a trivial one time per node cost at that time. Cough up a few local $ more if your poor sheeple hands get blisters from the cheap shovels and your local 10 square km area wants to buy boring machines and beer for a volunteer to dig it for you. No signups, no ID/SSN/DOB/PhoneNumber/Credit, no accounts, no tracking databases, no monthly fees. Nothing but you, your multiply redundant neighborly and community peers, and a commitment to move packets for everyone thus ensuring your own are always free to move. Just build it, plug in, and go.