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The U.S. Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday reaffirmed its 2022 decision to deny SpaceX satellite internet unit Starlink $885.5 million in rural broadband subsidies.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (7 children)

Can't really help the small islands and all the shipping traffic and aircraft that have started using it and can't benefit from a high speed connection with buried lines.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (6 children)

Ships and planes aren't rural

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (5 children)

There are also a lot of rural communities in Alaska, Northern Canada etc where the whole communities only option is satellite internet.

Sure we should get it out to those areas NEAR major cities but there are huge amounts of users where the cost for that would be impractical.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Yeah sure, but ships and planes don't matter for rural subsidies

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