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.

  • crazyCatEnglish
    73·
    1 year ago

    I own property in a very rural place and I don’t want it messing up our night sky view.

    Guess what, we also have great internet in this very rural place already, too, because they ran cable and put cell towers out there. That’s all it takes.

    • ipkpjersi@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Sure, but there are many places where this is the only option, and that’s not likely to change any time soon.

      • Candybar121@lemmy.worldEnglish
        12·
        1 year ago

        “where this is the only option”

        literally tell me one place on the planet that this is the only option. Ignoring the FACT that you can run cables to anywhere on the entire planet ig.

    • Troy@lemmy.caEnglish
      46·
      1 year ago

      You are the very definition of privileged, compared to most remote users. And your comment is as close to textbook NIMBY as I’ve ever seen. Plus a healthy dose of “fuck em, I got mine”.

      • crazyCatEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        What I’m saying is the most cost effective way to get internet to rural folks is to run cables, it works. You don’t have to put thousands of satellites up, it isn’t easier or better.

        • Troy@lemmy.caEnglish
          0·
          1 year ago

          You sound like you’ve never been anywhere truly remote. For a lot of people in the world, it would be cheaper for the governmet to buy their rural property, bulldoze it, and then buy them a house in a town with internet service – than it is to run a line to their property.

          • Freeman@lemmy.pubEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            For a lot of people in the world, it would be cheaper for the governmet to buy their rural property, bulldoze it, and then buy them a house in a town with internet service – than it is to run a line to their property.

            of course that would be cheaper if the government is paying for it…That would also be cheaper than just buying comcast for someone even in suburbs of the US…

        • Ilovethebomb@lemm.eeEnglish
          01·
          1 year ago

          You’re coming off as something of an out of touch asshole, to be honest. I know people for who getting mains power out to their house would cost them more than the property was worth. And there was mains available at the boundary. THAT’S what remote means, not what you’re describing.

      • Ben Hur Horse Race@lemm.eeEnglish
        11·
        1 year ago

        well when your backyard is the night sky for the entire globe you can call me a NIMBY when it comes to starlink’s glowing sattelite trains