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I hate everything about this. We're ruining our astronomical observations and risking Kessler Syndrome so a trillionaire can price gouge rural internet subscribers because he wants to get the high score on net worth because he can't get a high score on twitter likes (despite owning it) or any video game (despite having paid help). Who the hell told the United States that we have regulatory authority over our shared sky anyway?
Starlink is extremely competitive for rural customers, due in no small part to the USA’s extreme reluctance to make telecoms with monopolies actually reach people.
I'm not sure I would characterize a $1500 access surcharge as "extremely competitive" but I agree we should run fiber to rural areas.
If you’re referring to the dish purchase, they’re free these days. But even so, when your competitor is $200-500 upfront for a latent multi hop WISP topping out at 30 or 50mbps for $100 per month, a solid 300mbps for $130 and $1000 for a dish is cheap
No I mean the $1500 monthly demand surcharge that is the subject of the article you're commenting under:
They aren't price gouging rural internet subscribers it's the opposite they get half priced subscriptions for as long as they keep them. It is the people who try to sign up that already live in a congested area that get fuck off prices. You can sign up and get a rural deal and then move to a congested area with fuckoff pricing. That is what I did inadvertently.
TIL about Kessler Syndrome. Thanks.
There's an anime/manga series kinda about it. They're a misfit space garbage disposal crew. Meant to prevent space collisions.
https://youtu.be/ZESIHA0qK3U?is=RrFAaPIQCnlaVxUY
If you’re on a fedi service that allows you to follow individual accounts, like mastodon or piefed, you can follow my favorite astronomy professor in the fediverse who talks about this @sundogplanets@mastodon.social
Followed because awesome.
Me too. Also, I’m surprised Bezos doesn’t just do “space debris” cleanup. He’s not going to get into Musk’s space anytime soon.
It's terrifying.