Comment on SpaceX blasts FCC as it refuses to reinstate Starlink’s $886 million grant
hperrin@lemmy.world 1 year agothis applicant had failed to meet its burden to be entitled to nearly $900 million in universal service funds for almost a decade
Maybe we should invest in another company that will actually deserve it.
CmdrShepard@lemmy.one 1 year ago
The problem is that this company doesn’t exist.
kalleboo@lemmy.world 1 year ago
This grant was originally not going to even allow satellite providers - the idea was it was going to go to hundreds of small fiber and wireless ISPs who needed the money to build infrastructure to rural areas that is not profitable on the face of it.
theneverfox@pawb.social 1 year ago
If only there was some way for the government to take the money, then just like… Directly hire qualified people to actually do it.
Maybe we could take a little money from everyone, then charge just enough to keep the system running?
I know, it’s a pretty crazy idea…I mean, it would be expensive up front, but it would be way cheaper for the service. Plus, we could stop paying ISPs to pinkie promise to build out modern infrastructure or lying about serving rural areas to get grants
(Btw, the government bought out iridium, the company that does satellite phones, when they ran out of money and were days away from decommissioning the whole constellation. And they’ve kept it going for decades… So I bet they could tap those guys for the roadmap to a lower orbit solution… Or we could just keep it wired while we improve the tech)
Candybar121@lemmy.world 1 year ago
SupraMario@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The fuck are you talking about…
CmdrShepard@lemmy.one 1 year ago
Okay?