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Re:US agency will not reinstate $900M subsidy for Starlink by why_at on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @12:54PM (#38631274)
The part that makes me question the legitimacy of this decision is the fact that there are still other companies receiving the subsidy.

Quote from the article:

>Starlink is the only company actually solving rural broadband at scale! They should arguably dissolve the program and return funds to taxpayers, but definitely not send it (to) those who aren’t getting the job done

Are these other companies meeting the targets? If not then it seems pretty arbitrary to reject just SpaceX for not doing so yet.

Re:US agency will not reinstate $900M subsidy for Starlink by turquoisevar on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @01:00PM (#38631388)
You forgot to attribute the quote to Musk, arguably the least reliable person in our lifetime.
Re:US agency will not reinstate $900M subsidy for Starlink by why_at on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @01:10PM (#38631542)
Fair enough I guess, this could be total BS. FWIW the dissenting FCC commissioners made similar arguments.

>In 2022, many RDOF recipients had deployed no service at any speed to any location at all, and they had no obligation to do so

Maybe this is just more spin from people who want to turn this into another political battleground. It's not entirely clear to me, but it seems like there is room for doubt.