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You should reflect on this behavior, because you’re embodying everything you criticize this supposed “other side” of being.
As opposed to what it responds to?
Just lay down fiber. Unlike satellites you only have to do it once, but that's not exciting enough for rocket man because unlike satellites you don't get the government to pay you to play with rockets.
This is all there is to it, like the Apollo program was. A bunch of techbros want to play with rockets and try really hard to reverse engineer an excuse for government to hand them cash for it.
For the Apollo program it was collecting moon rocks that were supposed to hold god knows what secrets, for the current age of space it's rural internet.
What I’m saying is, feel free to step in if you can, but the market has spoken and the market is not interested in solving the problem your way.
That's why everyone is calling it political. The FCC has their opinion and based on that they are withholding not a failure to meet contract requirements.
Starlink hasn't failed to meet any agreed upon targets. The agreed upon targets are for 2025.
Starlink is currently providing service that is below those targets, but has several more years to meet them. Meanwhile, other recipients haven't delivered any service yet.
> Otherwise we will just have broadband 2.0, with Comcast & co getting billions in subsidies and not doing even a fraction of the necessary work.
Who do you think the other recipients are?