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That's a pretty damn editorialized title[0] given that Tusass signed an extended deal with their original provider. To me the chosen title implies that Tusass h
by sehansen 1y ago
That's a pretty damn editorialized title[0] given that Tusass signed an extended deal with their original provider. To me the chosen title implies that Tusass had chosen Starlink and then decided to stop using them. Starlink did submit a tender offer, but losing to an established competitor isn't super newsworthy.
0: No shade thrown at the submitter, as this is the title used by the site.
- philipallstar 1y agoThis sort of thing does feel like endless bias. I know some people lean into it and love to read the worst case, criminal prosecutor version of events, but I find it really off-putting.
- rkomorn 1y agoIt's not bias. It's clickbait.
- maelito 1y agoI think the title has to be read as "Greenland does not take the Starlink option despite it being the only internet satellite brand that the english speaking world talks about". Hence the "ditch". But you're right, it's a bad title.
- CaptainOfCoit 1y agoReality seems to be closer to: "After talks with Starlink and Eutelsat, Greenland went with Eutelsat because of trust and long-term cooperation". But with such title people wouldn't need to click the link to read the full article.
- actionfromafar 1y agoThat's a diplomatic way of saying "Starlink seems better but we trust the owner as far as we can throw em".
- ptero 1y agoNeither the fact that starlink seems better not that they do not trust Musk is necessary true. In business, especially on the government side, incumbency plays a very big role. Just knowing whom to call in case of issues and how soon they respond may account for all the trust needed to renew. My 2c.
- fmbb 1y agoTrue. But this year is also the year all European companies and governments learned the hard way they need to ditch US providers, and actually started working on it. Blackmail from your provider is not great for business relations. Let’s not pretend otherwise.
- ptero 1y agoThis is all good, and as an American citizen I cheer any attempt by Europe (China, Japan, anti-China SEA players or anyone else) to provide an alternative: of tech, of weapons procurement, of social model, of political setup or of anything else. The world needs more competition. But this article has nothing to do with the above, or with views of Musk. As others said, this request was for centralized access and SpaceX responded with a B2C proposal. It would have been rejected just as quickly even if it came from another company unaffiliated with the US.
- mrtksn 1y agoI think its newsworthy because the media cycle(social&traditional) since years framed Starlink as the only company providing such services and it turns out that you can actually use some other services. Well, actually can't realistically because those established alternatives were marketed towards B2B and that's why their equipment isn't affordable and very usable for the end user but still, its newsworthy that Starlink isn't eating their market straight away. Also, what's cool about Starlink is that they have sort of vertical integration with SpaceX that allows them to constantly keep launching new satellites which allows them maintain lower orbit constellation that allows for cheaper end-user equipment and potentially better speeds. Also the constant recycling of satellites allow for ever going network improvement as the tech advances. What's not cool about Starlink is that it is American and Elon Musk affiliated, which makes it national security risk for Europe and Greenland in particular. That is also part of the newsworthiness because if this becomes a trend Starlink may become unviable business for a market of just 300M people.
- microtonal 1y agoThe comments were most interesting for me, because I learned Eutelsat has over 600 satellites. As you mention, the media has framed Starlink as the only company providing good coverage. I never looked in more detail (I have fiber at home and great 5G coverage across the country I live in), so it was nice to learn that there is some competition. (Especially since the US has weaponized US services as of recently, like cutting off the e-mail services of the chief prosecutor of the ICC.)
- tedggh 1y agoThey are completely different technologies. Eutelsat are not designed for mass consumer traffic.
- dzikimarian 1y agoWhy is that? They have regular home offer in pretty competitive prices in the UK.
- exasperaited 1y agoIt is a bit, though "ditch" could mean both "discontinued using" and "abandoned a deal at the last minute". For example particularly in the UK and I think in Australia, the expression "ditched at the altar" is not uncommon. If Greenland was legitimately close to a finalising a deal with Starlink, my semantics brain cells will accept "ditched" here.
- skeezyjefferson 1y agoits cos it gets musk fanboys riled up and commenting, viewing, sharing etc. any time any of elon musk's ventures fail even in the slightest way, its fantastic news for us all. im sick of hearing hes doing anything at all for humanity because hes yet to deliver on any of his promises (forget living on mars, hes not even made it to moon yet, no tunnel under DC, no robotaxis)
- Levitz 1y agoStarlink works, rockets are landing safely, electric cars are definitely set to be the norm and there's a guy or two out there who legit are moving a computer cursor with their thoughts. I reckon he has delivered on plenty.
- skeezyjefferson 1y agowe had satellite internet, we had rockets that went to the moon in 60s, electric cars are still the minority, and in 2002 somebody got partial sight back from brain implants so fuck musk and his novelty bs
- Levitz 1y agoI'm sorry but this is utterly childish behavior.
- skeezyjefferson 1y agotruth hurts huh?