Going to be a little while before I have the time to sit down and go through the full text of the bill.
I see a couple of mentions of dig once requirements, no mentions of one touch make ready rules. References to municipal Internet that seem at glance to mostly be about allocating funds, but again, I haven't been able to read over the bill in detail, so I'm very likely missing details. I can't find much mentioning repeals other than what appears to be (again, just skimming) caps on the lifeline program.
For anyone who has spent more time reading, what are the big takeaways from this -- beyond just allocating money for infrastructure?
I'm pretty skeptical of a bill that just adds a few regulations around consumer costs and devotes money to building infrastructure, because what I've seen is that the big players like Comcast swoop in, take the money, and then don't build the infrastructure. And then nobody punishes them. I don't really get the point of throwing money at this problem when we've already seen that established players can just take the money and run.
What would make me excited is repeals of regulations surrounding municipal wifi, or tangible paths to stop new competitors from getting sued out of existence.
Should I be excited about anything in this bill?