The U.S. Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday reaffirmed its 2022 decision to deny SpaceX satellite internet unit Starlink $885.5 million in rural broadband subsidies.
The FCC said the decision impacting Elon Musk’s space company was based on Starlink’s failure to meet basic program requirements and that Starlink could not demonstrate it could deliver promised service after SpaceX had challeged the 2022 decision.
dope. no more making the public pay for things that will be privately owned and exploited for profit. sorry rich people, pull yourself up by your bootstraps and stop eating so much avocado toast.
Uhh this money is still going to get allocated to someone.
Yeah it is. To the shitty cable companies we’ve had for years that have promised to serve rural areas but never have. But it seems like the most important thing is the unions that install and service that cable.
They say that now, but wait until they get Slammed or Blasted on X.
There was just a story about starlink slowing down as more customers joined the network.
Seems like a good call. The option is nice for rural areas, but it’s a stopgap measure at best while those areas wait for the slow rollout of fiber.
You can just use your phone for internet in rural areas.
We have 4G coverage almost nationwide. The places without service are the ones where we’re not allowed to build towers, like national parks.
I wouldn’t say this is quite true. I live in a rural area and I need to connect to the Internet using my phone’s hotspot for work. I have a surprisingly large number of homes I go into that I can’t get enough of a cell signal with Verizon to make this work. It causes me no end of headaches.
Speaking from the West Coast, no you absolutely cannot. Plenty of places have terrible to no coverage once you’re out in the hinterlands.
So the article doesn’t give any claimed reasons, seems very biased or at least poorly written.
From some of the gaps in the article and way too much speculation, I think the reasons were:
- Existing service didn’t meet a bandwidth requirement
- Scale out requires Starship, which has not flown yet
So I do believe this is our best hope for universal rural broadband, but it’s not a done deal. It’s never been done and the launch rate is beyond current technology, so there is no way to predict. At least traditional providers have known technology, and lots of experience. They suck and will never deliver but they could.
No, the article reports as much information as is publicly available. If the FCC wanted to be more specific in their reasoning, they would’ve been. Reporters can’t just magically make recalcitrant public officials talk. This is an example of poor media literacy on your part.
Ahhhh, that’s why he begged Investors for more money
Thank fuck. Can we stop funding this grifter?
Thank GOD, Kessler Syndrome avoided… for now.
Look up how many Starlink Sats were launched amd how many never even achieved stable orbit, how many decayed after one or two full orbits, and the how many that actually achieved orbit /functionally work for internet relay/, with a bunch just broken useless extremely low earth orbiti g space garbage.
I cant find the original source I used to check that out a year ago, but if memory serves we are looking at a plus 70% failure rate if you only count sats with stable orbits that actually provide internet service ( ie, survived launch and orbital insertion with their electronics intact ) as ‘successful.’
Functionally the US taxpayer has subsidized Starlink to basically throw up a bunch up space debris…
… And Musk already stated last year (before his im gonna buy twitter so people will like me meltdown) that SpaceX will go bankrupt if they dont make their StarLink launches timetable.
I am pretty sure they didnt, and not continuing to recieve gov subsidies (remember when Musk tweeted… or xweeted… that all government subsidies should be cancelled, not too long ago?) … just maybe might accelerate the bankruptcy of SpaceX.
Tesla is fucked, SpaceX is fucked, Twitter is fucked… does the Boring Company even still exist? and oh dear god Neuralink is a quadruple monster truck figure 8 demolition derby trashfireultrafuck.
Is it possible that Musk might actually go bankrupt and be sent to jail for the absurd amount of fraud he has done?
If you’re reading my comment and you didn’t click expand on the one above…go back and do so. It gets better and better.
