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I don't feel knowledgeable enough about the expected process to comment on that. Two points of speculation though: 1. It looks like the commission believes Sta
by rohansingh 3y ago
I don't feel knowledgeable enough about the expected process to comment on that. Two points of speculation though:
1. It looks like the commission believes Starlink is trending away from the targets rather than toward them, and that can't help their case.
2. It's hard for me to see how there would not be at least some political considerations here. The fact that this program exists at all is a political decision. So it's part & parcel of the playing field — which is probably why most leaders work hard to not piss off their regulators.
- CamelCaseName 3y agoI think #1 is what really strikes me here. It's like standing in front of a train and not moving because you asked the conductor to stop. What happens when they reach 2025 and billions of dollars have gone down the drain? Why wait?
- inemesitaffia 3y agoThere's fines and no evidence SpaceX was getting billions. The award amount is public and paid monthly
- CamelCaseName 3y agoSorry, I thought the award stated was annual, reading it more closely I see that it's not.
- inemesitaffia 3y agoThe amount everyones quoting is the full fat amount over the life of the contract. You have to show you can do most of it yourself i.e raise the money. After a %age deployment the FCC checks if you've met the deployment timeline and checks your speeds then starts paying you and keeps testing as you deploy according to the timeline. You don't get a dime upfront.
- barbacoa 3y agoThe reason individual speeds were trending down is because the number of users is increasing. Now that the service no longer has wait-lists and is fully available to everyone, one would imagine speeds increasing as more infrastructure is brought online.
- inemesitaffia 3y agoService tiers, QOS, QCI