Ajit Pai faces rare criticism from GOP senator on rural broadband failures

The obvious solution to rural broadband, is to accelerate the deployment of LEO satellite broadband like Starlink. It's radically cheaper than deploying fiber to the home across areas with population densities of 10 or 20 people per sq km. The cost to deploy fiber all over rural America is crazy vs the size of the customer base that will use it (more so given rural America continues to shrink).

As a taxpayer I'd be fine with the US Government providing loans to be split between several companies (SpaceX, OneWeb, etc), to be put exclusively into making this happen in three or four years instead of seven or eight. Have any relevant government agencies assist in accelerating it, whether NASA or DARPA.

Considering how many farmers vote Republican I'm almost surprised this issue is not raised more often in red states.