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 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.
It’s weird. Even in the least densely populated county (and one of the poorest), we were able to get fiber. 50/25 is pretty reasonably priced, and could go up to 250mbps if we wanted for still fairly reasonable.
If they could do it, don’t understand why most places -except maybe the most rural western US - can’t do the same.
As a counter anecdote. I am 15 miles from a town of 150k people and I don’t have fiber, I don’t even have cable, or copper phone.
Thankfully these days we have 4G and Starlink. Otherwise we would have nothing.
Just want to say that capitalism is about doing what is most profit able. That does not always mean it has to be the best service or product. This is one such example.