Fucking good. I don’t want a single penny of my money going towards any of Elon Musk’s scams.

It’s not a scam. Satellite internet was extremely expensive and slow last time I checked a few years before starlink. Yeah , musk is garbage but starlink is actually helping a lot of people worldwide.

Like the people in Ukraine when they were trying to defend themselves from Russia and Starlink intentionally limited them? Nah, SMD. Fuck Starlink and fuck anything that Elon Musk has a hand in. He deserves to be on the street.

The money would have come from the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund program (RDOF), but the FCC writes that Starlink wasn’t able to “demonstrate that it could deliver the promised service” and that giving the subsidy to it wouldn’t be “the best use of limited Universal Service Fund dollars.”

The FCC decision sounds like a good thing in this case, also because Starlink isn’t being managed responsibly

The technology itself is cool, and I hope some other companies can build off that work to meet that need. There are a lot of existing companies that take advantage of those living in rural areas, many of which don’t have other options or much disposable income

ISPs were paid millions a decade ago to lay a coast-to-coast fiber network across the USA but instead took the money and ran then faced zero consequences.