The FCC decided it wouldn’t be the “best” use of limited funds.

Starlink loses out on $886 million in rural broadband subsidies::The FCC reaffirmed a decision not to award Starlink a nearly $900 million subsidy for offering 100Mbps/20Mbps low-latency internet service in 35 states.

  • echo64@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 months ago

    I don’t think you understand that a lot of copper is still less than infinite rockets forever

      • alsimoneau@lemmy.caEnglish
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        9 months ago

        The issue with starlink is the choice to be in LEO instead of using geosats. It lowers the latency but it makes the whole project completely unsustainable.

        • Ilovethebomb@lemm.eeEnglish
          13·
          9 months ago

          I suspect they’ll eventually move to a slightly higher orbit, where their satellites can last a decade or so, once the technology is more mature.

    • Ilovethebomb@lemm.eeEnglish
      12·
      9 months ago

      This is the kind of dumb statement that really gives this platform a bad name. I know people who were quoted a six figure sum to get mains power to their property, fibre would have been a similar cost. And this is people who are at a fixed location, we also have those who are mobile to consider.

      There are people for whom a wired connection to anything is out of the question.