FCC lifts looming deadline for Amazon Leo satellite broadband constellation

The waiver "serves the public interest by promoting a second large satellite broadband constellation."

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I work in the comms sector - personally, I'd love to break the monopoly and drag the US into entertaining more municipal fiber. That said, it simply doesn't cover all use cases (not saying we shouldn't do it - just saying you still need both).

Fiber economics simply won't make sense everywhere, even terrestrial FWA is limited. Not to mention the defense applications, maritime, air, and ultra-long-haul that LEO satellites can offer.

Anywhere power lines can go, so can fiber.

Anything else is admitting we can't match the work of a hundred years ago and the rural electrification efforts.

Fiber is also cheaper than roads and we have those a lot of places fiber doesn't go.