Starlink Now Versus Bureaucratic Wait

The government could achieve their goal of universal internet access six years early.

In 2021 the Biden-Harris administration signed the Broadband Equity Access and Deployment Program authorizing $42.45 billion to provide universal high-speed broadband by 2030. Vice-President Harris was tasked to manage the program in 2021.

The Commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission, Brendan Carr, recently reported that over 1,000 days later not a single person has been connected.

Elon Musk launched Starlink with the first 60 satellites on his Falcon 9 rocket in May of 2019. Since then 7,022 satellites have been put into orbit with 6,346 operational. Starlink satellites make up over 60 percent of all active spacecraft in orbit. Today the Starlink satellites beam internet access to over 3 million customers in all 50 states.

Ask those without internet service who they would prefer: Starlink now or the government system at some unknown date in the future. By using Starlink the Biden-Harris administration could meet the goal of universal internet access six years early. Why not rely on space entrepreneurs that create value and abundances instead of bureaucrats and politicians that create scarcities and corruption.

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Gale Pooley is a Senior Fellow at the Discovery Institute and a board member at Human Progress.