With a touch over.$700 milion a year , if the fumd provided grants to micro isps of $500 per household, you could wire up 1.1 million families a year. With connections to schools, libraries, and granges you could probably directly touch 3 million.people.a.year.
With a rural population of 59 million, with say half already have access and ten million don’t want it, and a population growth rate of -0.6%, a two dollar a month tax would alleviate the biggest problems in three years and the vast majority in eight years.
Even with 10% graft, corruption, and overhead it only adds about a year to each. And at $35/month plus taxes (so really $40ish), and if the microisps had to be 501(3)c to qualify for grants, it would be self.sustaining.
Lastly, adding 1.1 million households would add $24 million annually, which means year two you add 1.4 million households and $36 million, and so forth. Then, when the subscriber revenue starts rolling it… It is a multi, multi billion dollar infrastructure project that just added, err, 45,000 middle class jobs.
