Starlink loses out on $886 million in rural broadband subsidies::The FCC reaffirmed a decision not to award Starlink a nearly $900 million subsidy for offering 100Mbps/20Mbps low-latency internet service in 35 states.

  • @echo64
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    11 months ago

    Ships don’t need infinite rockets full of infinite cell towers launched forever.

    Maybe when we have fusion power and don’t have to waste the resources. We don’t. We have to choose what we want to use. I say that launching infinite rockets with infinite cell towers forever is not worth being able to watch tiktok in the middle of the Atlantic.

    There’s always actual satellite internet for the needed communications.

    Maybe we should just wait for the subsidies and the investor money that’s actually paying for starlink to run out and see where things quite literally fall.

    • @[email protected]
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      011 months ago

      infinite rockets full of infinite cell towers

      They need 12,000 of them, which isn’t a huge amount considering you’re covering the entire globe.

      • @echo64
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        -111 months ago

        Per year, forever. Hence infinite rockets with infinite cell towers.

        • @[email protected]
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          -111 months ago

          The typical lifespan is 5-7 years, so 2400 per year at worst.

          You don’t really do math, do you?

          • @echo64
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            -111 months ago

            It’s one year. Their goal is 5 years, but it’s one year because they haven’t hit their goal. Starlink hasn’t even been active for five years yet. This is embarrassing for you.

              • @echo64
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                011 months ago

                They fall out of the sky in one year. Their stated goal is five. They fall out of the sky after one year.

                  • @echo64
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                    Oh I think you’ll have to go provide your source for the 5-7 years when they have only been launching for four and they come down after a year first, I mean you can go Google up what I said, they don’t hide it, but where’s your unfounded, wrong, illogical claim backed by?