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Actually insane that the FCC opted to cancel the rural broadband contract with SpaceX for Starlink, to placate ancient telecoms who wanted to spend 4x more doing it with fiber...

Not an elon fan, but the current admin / gov in charge is run by halfwits.

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The interesting thing is that an FCC commissioner has also been constantly commenting on how nonsensical that decision was. I don't really know enough about the decision to decide either way, but it does seem dumb to me that the other providers don't seem to be getting threatened with removal if it is true that no one has received improved connectivity due to those subsidies (even if we accept that the money has only been allocated and not spent yet, it'd be a failure to have spent all this time just working on allocating money).

Has the cancellation actually affected Starlink in any way? Have they put up satellites more slowly or charged customers more?

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