ylai@lemmy.ml to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months agoFCC Denies Starlink Low-Orbit Bid for Lower Latencyspectrum.ieee.orgexternal-linkmessage-square27fedilinkarrow-up189arrow-down11
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minus-squarepartial_accumen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·6 months ago It requires an infinite amount of rockets sent into low earth orbit forever True. at a heavy subsidised cost paid for by American taxpayers. How are American taxpayers subsidizing Starlink? The gov certainly isn’t paying for Starlink launches or satellites . Starlink was also denied the $866 billion for government funded rural broadband/ Where is the tax money you’re saying come from?
minus-squaremarx2k@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·6 months agoWell, they were going to get subsidies https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/07/spacex-starlink-wins-nearly-900-million-in-fcc-subsidies-auction.html Now starlink mad they not https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/12/spacex-blasts-fcc-as-it-refuses-to-reinstate-starlinks-886-million-grant/
minus-squarepartial_accumen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·6 months agoRight, I linked that in my post. So where is the taxpayer subsidy?
True.
How are American taxpayers subsidizing Starlink? The gov certainly isn’t paying for Starlink launches or satellites . Starlink was also denied the $866 billion for government funded rural broadband/
Where is the tax money you’re saying come from?
Well, they were going to get subsidies https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/07/spacex-starlink-wins-nearly-900-million-in-fcc-subsidies-auction.html
Now starlink mad they not https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/12/spacex-blasts-fcc-as-it-refuses-to-reinstate-starlinks-886-million-grant/
Right, I linked that in my post. So where is the taxpayer subsidy?
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