The more people that use starlink the slower and less usable it becomes, additionally phony stark can turn it off whenever he sees fit.
Good luck with that
Comment on SpaceX blasts FCC as it refuses to reinstate Starlink’s $886 million grant
nixcamic@lemmy.world 11 months ago
On one hand, ew Elon Musk.
On the other hand Starlink has given us the first decent internet we’ve ever had so…
Fades@lemmy.world 11 months ago
nixcamic@lemmy.world 11 months ago
In theory they’re gonna keep upgrading the network, they’ve been constantly launching new and better satellites since launch. Also yeah in theory they can turn it off but that’s such an odd hypothetical that who cares. In theory our old ISP could also do that.
And if Starlink does die we just go back to our old garbage or hopefully someone else will have a functional LEO constellation by then.
Mongostein@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
“In theory”?
He did turn it off in an effort to influence the Ukraine/Russia conflict.
nixcamic@lemmy.world 10 months ago
theguardian.com/…/elon-musk-biographer-admits-sug…
The original source of that claim retracted his statement…
Acters@lemmy.world 11 months ago
cable companies literally took a billion dollar grant to expand infrastructure and didnt do much of anything. This is literally doing something. F elon but the engineers who worked hard to make this a reality deserve better
Vex_Detrause@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
It looked so promising but I feel like once I fell in love with the service they will start enshitification. Like Gmail, maps, pixel phones, YouTube, g-drive. Etc…
variaatio@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
However this isn’t about your anecdotal experience. This is about what level of service they can guarantee as minimum and overall to meet the conditions of the subsidiary.
I would also note this isn’t reinstatement. FCC refused to give them the subsidiary in the first place with this decision. What they are trying to spin as reneg on previous decision is them making the short list of companies to be considered. Well getting short listed is not same as being selected fully.
They passed the criterion for the short list check, but the final authorization and selection included more and more through checking on the promises of companies to meet criterion and SpaceX failed the more through final round of scrutiny before being awarded the subsidiary.
Government having awarded bad money previously isn’t fized by following up bad awards with more bad awards. SpaceX exactly failed since previously money was handed out too losely and FCC has tightened the scrutiny on subsidiary awards to not follow up bad money with more bad money.
Nobody is prevented from buying Starlink, thus just means Starlink isn’t getting subsidized with tax payer money.