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SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink (arstechnica.com)
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[–] 16 points 1 year ago (7 children)

On one hand, Musk.

On the other hand... Telecos.

You can either give billions more to the world's richest asshole, or you can give billions to companies that already received that money last time and did absolutely fuckall with it.

Lose-lose

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I mean there is a third option: municipal fiber

    But then the gub’ment is your ISP but at least it’s not making billionaires money.

    I’d suggest the best case scenario to me would be a fourth option like a community run co-op of fiber to the premises and have it be grant funded. But who am I kidding, that’s almost to socialist for rural America like where I live.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Third option: municipal fibre

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