Trump official tells Europe to choose between US or Chinese communications tech

Re:Trump official tells Europe to choose between US or Chine... by phillipseamore on Tuesday April 15, 2025 @08:37PM (#43700092)

Also strange to propose that there are only two options when Europe already has it's own up and running GEO and LEO satellite systems. It's not choosing US or China, it's chosen to expand their own systems.

(I wouldn't be surprised that Brendan Carr simply doesn't know what European options are available)

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Re:Trump official tells Europe to choose between US or Chine... by tough on Tuesday April 15, 2025 @08:47PM (#43700144)

What's even funnier is that the actual upsell is of Musk's Starlink, lmao

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Re:Trump official tells Europe to choose between US or Chine... by rsynnott on Wednesday April 16, 2025 @04:48AM (#43703058)

Also, like, satellite simply isn’t _that_ important comms-wise. And European companies are huge in terrestrial and especially cellular. This is actually an area of vulnerability for the US; unless it adds yet another tariff carve out or scraps the tariffs, it’s likely to have cellular infra issues.

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