SpaceX projected 20 million Starlink users by 2022—it ended up with 1 million::Starlink has a fraction of the projected $12B revenue and 20M users, WSJ says.

  • @mailerdaemon
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    51 year ago

    As someone who lives in a country that formerly had a nationalized phone company in the internet age, and currently has a nationalized power company and airline. Dear God fuck no!

    • @CurlyMoustache
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      51 year ago

      In my country, the main backbone is built, owned and operated by the government. The services on it are privatized

    • @demlet
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      41 year ago

      I say we let him build up a huge satellite fleet and then force him to sell a huge chunk of it under antitrust law.

      • @[email protected]
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        121 year ago

        You mean the same government that allowed XM and Sirius to merge with no other satellite radio competition would go after Starlink when they have competition (Hughesnet)?

        • @demlet
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          31 year ago

          Probably not but it would be funny.