I’m completely for shutting down the affordable connectivity program
The ISPs should have to provide the service at a minimal rate to same said families and also offer 100/100 minimum service to anyone
Maybe reverse the order of those ideas, so as not to make the lives of people who are already struggling even harder.
in the regions they operate.
ISPs would then have an incentive to avoid operating in poor neighborhoods. Mitigating that could be tough, given that internet service deployments are already patchy in many places.
Another approach might be municipal broadband, which big ISPs have been lobbying against for ages, often successfully.