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Re:SpaceX no longer taking losses to produce Starlink satell... by xeromal on Wednesday September 13, 2023 @02:01PM (#37499612)
Large swaths of the US have bunk internet like Earthlink. My rural family in Appalachia already like Musk. I think they'd love to have Starlink if it was a little more affordable.
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Re:SpaceX no longer taking losses to produce Starlink satell... by qup on Wednesday September 13, 2023 @02:04PM (#37499653)
Earthlink still exists?

Wow. When I was a kid, we would steal "ELN" accounts for dial-up and then hop on to AOL via TCP/IP.

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Re:SpaceX no longer taking losses to produce Starlink satell... by xeromal on Wednesday September 13, 2023 @02:21PM (#37499837)
I miss the early days of the internet.
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Re:SpaceX no longer taking losses to produce Starlink satell... by bookofjoe on Wednesday September 13, 2023 @03:08PM (#37500408)
My psychiatrist still has an Earthlink email address. I started seeing him in 1991 and we still talk 30 minutes every 4 months just for lulz.
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Re:SpaceX no longer taking losses to produce Starlink satell... by Loughla on Wednesday September 13, 2023 @03:40PM (#37500805)
We live in a very rural area. The one time the federal government really came through for me was fiber development grants a few years ago.

We went from Wild Blue internet, which was garbage all around, for $120/mo to a full gig fiber connection locked in at $80/mo for life. It cost us $200 to hook it up.

More and more rural isp's are getting into fiber with grants.

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Re:SpaceX no longer taking losses to produce Starlink satell... by HWR_14 on Wednesday September 13, 2023 @04:07PM (#37501083)
And SpaceX was going to get some of that grant money as well. But they messed it up somehow.
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Re:SpaceX no longer taking losses to produce Starlink satell... by inemesitaffia on Wednesday September 13, 2023 @06:02PM (#37502321)
They very well may still get it
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Re:SpaceX no longer taking losses to produce Starlink satell... by HWR_14 on Wednesday September 13, 2023 @07:15PM (#37502908)
They might get it back. But they had, and lost, the grant already.
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