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Starlink loses out on $886 million in rural broadband subsidies (www.theverge.com)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah, Musk has gone insane, anyone can see that.

But Musk aside, LEO satellites are still really the only viable and economical solution to the problem of broadband in rural areas, and Starlink seems to work great.

Also, the objection that resulted in pulling this funding looks pretty bullshit. Several other broadband providers are getting these same funding deals for doing basically nothing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Musk has gone insane

No, he hasn't. He's just a bog-standard capitalist doing bog-standard capitalist things.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Explicitly not the point of my post...