Timeline on that must be pretty open. Does Kuiper even have 100 sats
orbiting yet?
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On 9/27/2025 8:04 AM, Ken Hohhof wrote:
I saw that also. Has pretty much a placeholder website from last year
saying it is a consortium.
Searching the Illinois Secy of State business registration database,
the only active entity with that name was registered in 2024 with an
address of 120 W. LANE STREET, EQUALITY,IL. A search on that address
comes up with Shawnee Communications. Equality is in middle of
nowhere southern Illinois, about 50 miles east of Carbondale.
Looking at the locations they were awarded, and given that the state
broadband office awarded the most difficult locations to Amazon
Kuiper, my guess would be these involve existing fiber ISPs building
to areas adjacent to their current footprint. Otherwise it makes no
sense to me they would bid on these dispersed locations and bid low
enough to fall below the threshold for LEO.
Maybe some grant writing firm rounded up a bunch of small ISPs and
offered to create a consortium to bid for BEAD money. Focusing on
areas they could expand into for cheap if they got some govt money.
Just my guess, probably wrong.
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*Subject:* [AFMUG] Strategic Management, LLC
Anyone heard of these guys? They got a pretty big award for BEAD
funding for fiber here in Illinois.
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