I've been pointing this out ever since the "rural high speed" boondoggle began in the states years ago

NOT A SINGLE HOME CONNECTED: Americans still waiting on Biden broadband plan; rural high-speed internet stuck in Dems’ red tape.

Residents in rural America are eager to access high-speed internet under a $42.5 billion federal modernization program, but not a single home or business has been connected to new broadband networks nearly three years after President Biden signed the funding into law, and no project will break ground until sometime next year.

Lawmakers and internet companies blame the slow rollout on burdensome requirements for obtaining the funds, including climate change mandates, preferences for hiring union workers and the requirement that eligible companies prioritize the employment of “justice-impacted” people with criminal records to install broadband equipment.

The Commerce Department, which is distributing the funds under the Broadband Equity Access and Deployment (BEAD) program, is also attempting to regulate consumer rates, lawmakers say. This puts them at odds with internet providers and congressional Republicans, who say the law prohibits such regulation.

The slow pace of funding allocation and compliance will push the project start dates for modernizing rural internet access to 2025 and 2026, according to a timeline officials outlined in a House budget hearing.

Federal Communications Commissioner Brendan Carr said the program’s goal of providing high-speed internet to most underserved areas will not be fully realized until 2030, nine years after its enactment.

This is happening across the country, wherever graft bucks are available (that would be everywhere). Maine has been shoveling millions of federal and its own taxpayer’s money to subsidize cable companies, and thanks to the Inflation Rocketing Act, it pulled in an additional $110 million in 2022 and $272 million this year In 2022, the Governor stated that it was her goal to have ”high-speed internet connections available to all by the end of 2024” Practically nothing’s been built since she made that statement, so she’d better get busy.