SpaceX blasts FCC as it refuses to reinstate Starlink’s $886 million grant::FCC doubts ability to provide high-speed, low-latency service in all grant areas.

  • Marcbmann@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    SpaceX has paid for starlink through selling flights on their rockets, not through “subsidies like this”

    You seem confused if you’re flip flopping between starlink being paid for by consumers and subsidies.

    • echo64@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      No, they didn’t. They got almost a billion a year in subsidies, which is what this whole thread is about.

      Starlink is paid for by consumers and heavily subsidized by governments. It’s not that hard to follow.