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It's likely that is the real motivation for Starlink. Rural internet is just a bonus. Laundering the money through FCC RDOF was a stroke of genius; I tip my h
by KirillPanov 5y ago
It's likely that is the real motivation for Starlink. Rural internet is just a bonus.
Laundering the money through FCC RDOF was a stroke of genius; I tip my hat to whoever came up with that idea.
- Robotbeat 5y agoThat doesn't make any sense. There's WAY more money in commercial satellite internet than there is with niche US military contracts. I don't understand why people are so committed to assuming there's a nefarious "real motivation" behind Starlink. Global telecomms is on the order of $2 trillion in revenue per year and growing. The US military's GPS budget is about $1.5 billion. So we're talking about addressable markets 3 orders of magnitude different in size.
- KirillPanov 5y agoOh yeah, I'm sure this just for fun: https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/75874/us-navy-returns-teaching-officers-how-navigate-stars https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/75874/us-navy-returns-te...