Comment on A million new SpaceX satellites will destroy the night sky — for everyone on Earth
zpiritual@lemmy.ca 8 hours agoI don’t know what a fcc is but if it helps us having good internet I’m all for it. I work on ships and I’ve used starlink on ships in storms and all kinds of bad weather including finding the antenna covered in ice and snow. It’s fantastic. Our old geostationary communication system fails as soon as a passing bird looks at it.
CorrectAlias@piefed.blahaj.zone 8 hours ago
The FCC is the Federal Communication Commission for the US. They’re a US federal agency meant to do domestic policy.
The intent of the subsidies was not for ships or international communication. It was meant for rural US properties. That’s why it should have been allocated to PUDs (public utility district). It would have been more useful for the people paying the taxes to give broadband subsidies.
Shipping companies can pay their own way - they’re corporations and can afford it. The subsides should not have gone to SpaceX.