TESLARATI: FCC Commissioner calls out agency for hypocritical take on SpaceX Starlink
FCC Commissioner calls out agency for hypocritical take on SpaceX Starlink
TESLARATI: FCC Commissioner calls out agency for hypocritical take on SpaceX Starlink
FCC Commissioner calls out agency for hypocritical take on SpaceX Starlink
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Vertical integration baby! They built the most reliable and affordable ride to LEO in history, broke the mold in satellite design enabling launching them by the dozens and now they are the bad guys because the competition was left in the dust? That’s pathetic
Ok, so let’s launch another 5000+ satellites from another provider, and another 5000+ satellites from a 3rd provider, etc. Heck, even SpaceX could launch them with Starship. But now you have 100,000 satellites in orbit and major disaster looming.
When telephone and electric power were first being developed and cities were being wired up, it was clear that multiple providers, each with their own poles, wires, and infrastructure would not ‘cut it’. Lookup old pictures of cities from 110 years ago and notice that the sky is almost black with crisscrossing telephone wires and power lines from competing utilities. It was decided that the best course would be to have a single provider each for power and telephone and that they be regulated by a public utility commission. Why not just do something similar with Starlink?
This is all new ‘territory’, so laws will change eventually, and new treaties will have o be drawn up. If the Starlink people are smart, they will be drafting those laws and treaties.
The FCC commissioner is being incredibly misleading. Starlink missed out on the rural broadband subsidy because they didn’t meet the minimum speed requirement in testing, and their plan for hitting it relied on a technology that had not yet been deployed. The FCC opted to go with paying for more fiber deployment instead. This is a totally separate issue from the chair’s suggestion that more competition in satellite Internet would be good.
I don’t even know why people are bothered by it, unless you are Carr who is just opposed to government subsidizing broadband deployment in general. SpaceX doesn’t need the subsidy and wouldn’t have deployed Internet faster had they gotten it. Instead of just balancing SpaceX’s books for launches they were going to do anyway, it’s paying for fiber deployments. Seems good to me.
FCC Commissioner Carr pointed out that the Democrat FCC Chairwoman Rosenworcel reversed the previous FCC Chairman Pai to block Starlink from receiving $886 million or $1384 per location in Rural subsidies [claiming that Starlink doesn’t work in August 2022](https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-386140A1.txt). Two years later, now the [Chairwoman claims Starlink is a monopoly](https://www.pcmag.com/news/fcc-chair-encourages-satellite-internet-competition-hints-starlink-is-a) so she still blocks Starlink for Rural when it’s clear that everyone from the US Navy to Ukraine to the Airlines and a dozen other countries want Starlink. Carr claims that this happened because the Biden administration has asked government agencies to go after Elon Musk’s companies.
One does have to wonder why people even need a $1384 subsidy when Rural customers are already paying $300 to install Starlink on their own dime, but that’s beside the point. The FCC now wants to spend and subsidize over $100,000 for broadband per location out of the $42 billion budget allocated 3 years ago, but not a single customer has been hooked up!
If you’re wondering where all this money comes from, it’s all regressive sales taxes on our telephone services like our Cell Phone.
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
|Fewer Letters|More Letters|
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|[ESA](/r/Space/comments/1fl37nh/stub/lo2wrcs “Last usage”)|European Space Agency|
|[FCC](/r/Space/comments/1fl37nh/stub/lo3naa5 “Last usage”)|Federal Communications Commission|
| |(Iron/steel) [Face-Centered Cubic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allotropes_of_iron) crystalline structure|
|[GEO](/r/Space/comments/1fl37nh/stub/lo22vbc “Last usage”)|Geostationary Earth Orbit (35786km)|
|[Isp](/r/Space/comments/1fl37nh/stub/lo1ynsp “Last usage”)|Specific impulse (as explained by [Scott Manley](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnisTeYLLgs) on YouTube)|
| |Internet Service Provider|
|[LEO](/r/Space/comments/1fl37nh/stub/lo4g7re “Last usage”)|Low Earth Orbit (180-2000km)|
| |Law Enforcement Officer (most often mentioned during transport operations)|
|Jargon|Definition|
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|[Starlink](/r/Space/comments/1fl37nh/stub/lo4b7xm “Last usage”)|SpaceX’s world-wide satellite broadband constellation|
|[periapsis](/r/Space/comments/1fl37nh/stub/lo2u81y “Last usage”)|Lowest point in an elliptical orbit (when the orbiter is fastest)|
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Cancelling the 900m grant SpaceX had gotten which was intended to provide internet to remote households once the Biden admin came into power is still one of the most blatantly politically motivated moves I’ve seen happen from an agency, and looks more and more comically stupid the longer the Biden administration fails to connect a single household to the internet with their 42 *billion* dollar initiative
This argument is that first they said it was monopolistic, and then they said it wasn’t “reasonably capable of supplying high speed internet”, and therefore it’s hypocritical because “they’re saying it’s so capable of providing high-speed internet that we’re going to toss the word monopoly out there.”
Do they not teach logic anymore? Apparently they need to, bc this is an asinine conflation that’d get you a failing grade in middle school.
Wake up babe.
Elmo’s fan club zine just dropped.
Is no one going to point out this is a literal tabloid that only pushes pro elon company news? It’s literally in the name lol and the author has zero experience writing for space or FCC news haha
This comment section is an competition to see who can come up with the most extreme propaganda.
I think it’s more concerning that the FCC commissioner is so stupid he thinks he can just invite other companies to launch a similar service, like it’s making t shirts or some shit. No other organization on earth has even tested a reusable booster similar to Space X. Launching a star link competitor is not economically viable without a reusable booster. It’s like saying Fed Ex is a monopoly, and asking for other companies to come in, when only Fed Ex had figured out how to have a delivery truck come back after a delivery, while everyone else’s truck burst into flames after delivery.