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
    25·
    7 months ago

    Ships don’t need infinite rockets full of infinite cell towers launched forever.

    Maybe when we have fusion power and don’t have to waste the resources. We don’t. We have to choose what we want to use. I say that launching infinite rockets with infinite cell towers forever is not worth being able to watch tiktok in the middle of the Atlantic.

    There’s always actual satellite internet for the needed communications.

    Maybe we should just wait for the subsidies and the investor money that’s actually paying for starlink to run out and see where things quite literally fall.

    • Ilovethebomb@lemm.eeEnglish
      11·
      7 months ago

      infinite rockets full of infinite cell towers

      They need 12,000 of them, which isn’t a huge amount considering you’re covering the entire globe.

      • echo64@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        7 months ago

        Per year, forever. Hence infinite rockets with infinite cell towers.

        • Ilovethebomb@lemm.eeEnglish
          12·
          7 months ago

          The typical lifespan is 5-7 years, so 2400 per year at worst.

          You don’t really do math, do you?

          • echo64@lemmy.worldEnglish
            11·
            7 months ago

            It’s one year. Their goal is 5 years, but it’s one year because they haven’t hit their goal. Starlink hasn’t even been active for five years yet. This is embarrassing for you.