Until the point comes where they want to provide that service in
exchange for must watch ads interrupting your browsing/video
experiences... I trust amazon to live up to a deal for as far as I can
throw an amazon truck..
On 10/1/25 2:38 PM, David Hannum wrote:
A couple of years ago at WISPAmerica, they had an industry "expert"
give a keynote. He was suggesting that Amazon, when in operation,
would offer totally free Internet in exchange for Prime membership.
If that happens, that will be hard to beat . . .
On Wed, Oct 1, 2025 at 3:31 PM Ken Hohhof <[email protected]> wrote:
Has anyone figured this out?
Other than free hardware for any resident at the location for 10
years, I can’t find what else BEAD will pay for. What about
installation? And are the monthly fees discounted? I assume it
varies by state, but what’s typically being done?
The reason I ask is now that my state’s proposed awards have been
publicized in the form of a map, I can see where they are
subsidizing fiber and where it will be Amazon Kuiper. This
figures bigly into our future plans. Most areas will get fiber,
and while they have 4 years to get it done, I think most of it
will be done in the next 2 years. I’m not going to try and deploy
fiber anywhere that is getting BEAD fiber. It’s another matter
where private money has been overbuilding cable companies in town
that charge north of $100/mo. They also knew they wouldn’t face
BEAD fiber because the locations weren’t unserved.
But the areas where there were no bids to do fiber for below
whatever the threshold was for LEO, probably you’d have to be a
fool to do fiber in those areas with 100% your own money. So
that’s where we’d focus any WISP expansion or upgrades, and what
we’d be competing with is subsidized Amazon Kuiper. If we’d be
competing with a free satellite receiver, that’s entirely
possible. If it’s 100 Mbps for $10/mo, that’s another matter.
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