They don’t have to take that long. Seriously, when you build years and years of government reviews and challenges and approvals into the process of awarding funds you have only yourself to blame when the government works for four years and accomplishes nothing. Meanwhile a Starlink, a private company, just starts doing the work. They’ve spent 10 billion dollars of their own money and built a service that is hands down the best internet service available in any rural area of America. They expect to have 11 billion in revenue this year, just 6 years after the service first became available to paying customers.