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Exclusive | Commerce to Overhaul ‘Internet for All’ Plan, Expanding Starlink Funding Prospects [1]
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Date: 2025-03
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick at the White House last month. Photo: Francis Chung/Pool/Cnp/ZUMA Press
The Commerce Department is examining changes to a $42.5 billion Biden-era program aimed at expanding internet access around the country with new rules that will make it easier for Starlink, Elon Musk’s satellite-internet service, to tap in to rural broadband funding, said people familiar with the plans.
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has told staff he plans to make the grant program “technology-neutral,” the people said. That change will free up states to award more funds to satellite-internet providers such as Starlink, rather than mainly to companies that lay fiber-optic cables, to connect the millions of U.S. households that lack high-speed internet service.
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