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.