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Re:Greenland Ditches Starlink for French Satellite Service by nolok on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @03:35AM (#45665914)
That's clearly what the author of that article want to say, but the truth is that Greenland has a centralized access (people go through the national provider to get access, and said provider uses others' solutions in the backend), while Starlink offer was for a direct to consumer system; they were simply not answering to the criterias requested.
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Re:Greenland Ditches Starlink for French Satellite Service by simondotau on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @05:55AM (#45666862)
This is pretty much exactly correct. This comment should be pinned to the top of this whole thread, because it does nobody any good when "alternative facts" are valued more highly than a boring truth.
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Re:Greenland Ditches Starlink for French Satellite Service by mlrtime on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @06:22AM (#45667038)
But then this article would be buried and the gears of the internet wouldn't continue to spin.

We all know at this point that rage == clicks == ad revenue.

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Re:Greenland Ditches Starlink for French Satellite Service by lukan on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @06:26AM (#45667068)
Except this is one of the few sites not operating by this principle.

(The only ads here are YC startup job offers)

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Re:Greenland Ditches Starlink for French Satellite Service by mlrtime on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @07:12AM (#45667376)
It still operates, just stops at the ads=money part.
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Re:Greenland Ditches Starlink for French Satellite Service by 1oooqooq on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @07:22AM (#45667453)
not really. this still push ads. they are just limited to "native ads format" (i.e. look like content to evade ad blockers) and only advertise yc companies and jobs.
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Re:Greenland Ditches Starlink for French Satellite Service by 310260 on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @06:27AM (#45667077)
The "uses others solutions" bit is for satellite alone when it comes to Tusass. They own and run all other types of telecom service in Greenland whether fiber, cellular, microwave, or marine radio.
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Re:Greenland Ditches Starlink for French Satellite Service by motorest on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @11:16AM (#45670442)
> (...) while Starlink (...) were simply not answering to the criterias requested.

If you read the article, that's not exactly the arguments pointed out by neither Tusass nor Greenland's politicians.

Cited from the article:

> Binzer said it was not about which company was better, but about trust and long-term cooperation. Tusass already works with Eutelsat and knows their systems well.

> Some Greenlandic politicians have warned that the country must keep control of its telecom infrastructure.

> They fear that opening the market to foreign providers could threaten national security. For now, Tusass remains the sole provider of telecommunications in Greenland.

The citations from the article are clear on how national security concerns were a key argument to not go with Starlink.

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