A WISP (or any other provider) that provides 25Mbps download+some nominal upload to a area (and reports that on their bi-annual FCC form 477) would cause the area to be marked as &quot;served&quot; and thus ineligible for CAF funding. IIRC the USDA BTOP program which funded a lot of middle mile projects had similar restriction.<p>From what I&#x27;ve seen this mostly spoils the traditional telcos (e.g. Centurylink &amp; Frontier) because CAF (replacement for USF) won&#x27;t pay for their upgrades (usually something like adding a VDSL2 DSLAM in a cabinet somewhere and running fiber back to their CO) when a high-performing WISP is in the area. Of course some little telcos that do FTTH are also affected.