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It's for disaster relief efforts, not to provide the monopolies who will be rebuilding the infrastructure a free pass.
by zdragnar 2y ago
It's for disaster relief efforts, not to provide the monopolies who will be rebuilding the infrastructure a free pass.
- JumpCrisscross 2y ago> a free pass It’s pronounced a run for their money, i.e. competition.
- svnt 2y agoI’m not sure how disaster recovery will be over in a month, or how monopolies will become major Starlink users undetected.
- zdragnar 2y agoThe monopolies are Comcast, charter, quest etc who usually have exclusionary rights to serve high speed Internet over cable/fiber. Free starlink is meant to be a temporary patch to aid evacuation and lifesaving efforts until the communities can be reconnected physically. If anything, the monopolists should be paying for their customers to get free starlink until their own networks are back up.
- svnt 2y agoThey do not have exclusionary rights, that was the whole point of all of the telco and cable anti-trust work. I don’t particularly like Comcast but the internet has been successfully preserved as a commodity, and communities worth serving are very well-served. I can choose from at least four competitive ISPs that I know of, and I am not in a particularly strong market area.