misk@sopuli.xyz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months agoStarlink loses out on $886 million in rural broadband subsidieswww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square24fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10cross-posted to: technology@lemmy.world
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minus-squareCmdrShepard@lemmy.onelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·10 months agoAs if giving it all to Comcast and Spectrum for the 47th time will make things any better? Starlink is actually something accessible for a lot of these people, while legacy ISPs just pocket the money and claim its too hard to serve rural customers.
minus-squarekattenluik@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·10 months agoAnything is better than Starlink, Starlink is just extreme useless pollution for something that normal ISPs can achieve. The government needs to step in and make internet more of a utility like in like every other successful country.
minus-squarehelenslunch@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·10 months ago Starlink is just extreme useless pollution for something that normal ISPs can achieve. If they could achieve it, Starlink simply wouldn’t exist.
minus-squarekattenluik@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·10 months agoThat’s completely wrong, for the ISPs it usually isn’t worth achieving and is why the government should step in.
minus-squarehelenslunch@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-210 months ago for the ISPs it usually isn’t worth achieving Yes that’s exactly my point and is why the government should step in. Okay but…they don’t. Starlink also covers the entire planet and all the oceans, which is simply not feasible with wires.
minus-squarekattenluik@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down1·10 months agoAnd also simply not necessary to have as many satellites as Starlink does needed to cover the ocean and the rare spots where wires can’t go.
As if giving it all to Comcast and Spectrum for the 47th time will make things any better? Starlink is actually something accessible for a lot of these people, while legacy ISPs just pocket the money and claim its too hard to serve rural customers.
Anything is better than Starlink, Starlink is just extreme useless pollution for something that normal ISPs can achieve.
The government needs to step in and make internet more of a utility like in like every other successful country.
If they could achieve it, Starlink simply wouldn’t exist.
That’s completely wrong, for the ISPs it usually isn’t worth achieving and is why the government should step in.
Yes that’s exactly my point
Okay but…they don’t.
Starlink also covers the entire planet and all the oceans, which is simply not feasible with wires.
And also simply not necessary to have as many satellites as Starlink does needed to cover the ocean and the rare spots where wires can’t go.