News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on SpaceX projected 20M Starlink users by 2022–it ended up with 1M. Parent comment

Re:SpaceX projected 20M Starlink users by 2022–it ended up w... by lukev on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @06:07PM (#37577580)
Also, Musk yanking the plug on an active operation does not bode well for that sort of use case.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:SpaceX projected 20M Starlink users by 2022–it ended up w... by dsabanin on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @11:39PM (#37580125)
That can be solved by legislation if necessary.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:SpaceX projected 20M Starlink users by 2022–it ended up w... by rlt on Wednesday September 20, 2023 @04:49PM (#37589972)
Except that’s not what happened. Starlink was not active in Crimea at the time because the US had sanctions in Crimea. He got a request from the Ukrainian government. He has stated if he got a request from the US government he would have activated it.
[ Parent | on HN ]