While broadband providers are losing customers and federal programs failing on their missions, Elon Musk’s satellite internet service Starlink is growing leaps and bounds.

A recent survey shows the United States doesn’t even crack the top ten countries with the fastest internet speed, with Middle Eastern nations UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia among those with a faster “median mobile download speed.”

The report comes in the backdrop of new information suggesting the Biden-Harris administration failed to use its time in office to expand internet connectivity in the United States. According to small-government advocate Seton Motley, one of Biden’s signature pieces of legislation, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, contained more than $42 billion to expand internet connectivity yet failed to connect a single American to the internet through the BEAD Program.

The Daily Signal reports that on top of failing to use public funding for internet connections, the Biden-Harris administration has also lapsed in efforts to auction off parts of the wireless data spectrum, which the government controls, to wireless internet providers. Incoming President Donald Trump’s pick to head the Federal Communications Commission, said the focus will soon be on making 5G and 6G spectrum available.

According to BEAD’s sole priority was wired home internet. This past year, Comcast lost 400,000 subscribers. Government programs do not consider cellular or satellite internet as connectivity. So, by Washington’s own metrics, they spent $42 billion and lowered the number of Americans connected to the internet.

But wireless and satellite connectivity is seeing tremendous growth, even if speeds are slower than many countries. Elon Musk’s Starlink, which provides wireless internet through a satellite and receiver system, tripled its internet traffic this year according to Cloudflare.

American data speeds may be slow, but they’re also expensive. American mobile data costs nearly 2.5 times the worldwide average.

USTelecom, the trade association representing broadband providers says “prices have plummeted nearly 60% in real terms” the last ten years. Yet data from BroadbandNow shows the average price of broadband still 50% above what it considers affordable.

Additionally, the Technology Policy Institute showed broadband service at popular speed tiers rose faster than inflation.