FCC doubts ability to provide high-speed, low-latency service in all grant areas.

SpaceX blasts FCC as it refuses to reinstate Starlink’s $886 million grant::FCC doubts ability to provide high-speed, low-latency service in all grant areas.

  • SupraMario@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1268·
    11 months ago

    The level of ignorance from you musk haters is hilarious. Starlink has done 100xs more for rural areas than the nearly trillion we gave to the telecoms. Yea musk is a dick but you’re ignorant as fuck if you think starlink is a scam.

    • czech@low.faux.moeEnglish
      472·
      11 months ago

      There were a dozen companies that applied for the grant. Musk won by over promising.

      • Cheers@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        401·
        11 months ago

        Not just that, he used star link to manage international relations by suddenly stopping service for Ukraine.

        He’s a “free speech abolitionist” and egotistical megalomaniac that’s willing lie about deliverables and take illegal actions because there’s been no punishment.

        Here’s punishment.

      • variaatioEnglish
        11·
        11 months ago

        Well he never won in the first place. This is the original final decision of him losing in the first place. What was “won” previously was SpaceX getting short listed as one of the companies to be seriously considered for award. Then followed the actual final full decision checks and SpaceX failed to meet criterion for the subsidy.

      • SupraMario@lemmy.worldEnglish
        26·
        11 months ago

        Then neither does any other telecoms that took nearly a trillion dollars and haven’t done even half of what starlink has done in under 10 years for rural broadband.

      • SupraMario@lemmy.worldEnglish
        44·
        11 months ago

        Yea…fuck all those people who work on projects that have literally changed humanity for the better…

      • SupraMario@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        11 months ago

        Yea starlink isn’t geo sat. It’s Leo and has ping around 20-30ms, basically the same as cable. If you’re trying to compare starlink to sat internet of the past, like vianet then you’re confused, as they’re completely different.

        • thatgirlwasfire@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          11 months ago

          Do you personally have starlink and experience those ping levels? Reports from people online claim higher ping times.

          • SupraMario@lemmy.worldEnglish
            11·
            11 months ago

            Yes, I did, but now have a wired connection through my coop electric company. I don’t know where your getting that ping is higher, go look at the /r/starlink subreddit, tons of people post their speeds there.

    • Marcbmann@lemmy.worldEnglish
      519·
      11 months ago

      People will keep down voting you, but I just wanted to stop in and let you know that there are other people like you who can read.

      People on Lemmy are leftist AF and their seething hate for Musk clouds their ability to think.

      • SupraMario@lemmy.worldEnglish
        46·
        11 months ago

        Yea I know, literally SpaceX has helped NASA out a ton and do a lot of ground breaking work, but because musk is involved, they want all of his shit to fail

        • Meowoem@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          45·
          11 months ago

          It is genuinely concerning the mentality round here, anything with musk must be bad and no one wants to even consider the possibility it’s not. That’s certainly not the only subject like that either, people are very clearly basing options on what suits their personal beliefs rather than what is baked up by fact.

          • IHadTwoCows@lemm.ee
            English
            42·
            11 months ago

            Well you know we get that mentality by observing what he does, listening to what he says, seeing who he keeps company with, and paying attention to the demeanor of the people under him. It’s not very complicated.

            • cole@lemdro.idEnglish
              2·
              11 months ago

              but you don’t pay attention to the actual impacts the companies have. SpaceX gets bashed a lot which is hilarious. There is no argument that SpaceX is bad. Like what, ULA was better? Throwing boosters in the ocean and charging $500 million+ per flight? SpaceX is objectively an amazing achievement that we should all be proud of.

          • SupraMario@lemmy.worldEnglish
            44·
            11 months ago

            Yep, waiting for all the bashing of AWS since bezo runs Amazon…the level of hate companies get that are tied to musk in anyway is insane. Musk is a mouth piece and a shit one at that but musk isn’t making these companies and doing the work, hundreds of thousands of people are.

            • IHadTwoCows@lemm.ee
              English
              21·
              11 months ago

              And yet HE gets all the money and glory for doing nothing but acting like an asshole.

              What should happen is that he be removed from all of these compenies and replaced with a competent leader…and no, Musk is NOT a competent leader.