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Elon Musk Is Charging Starlink Customers Gigantic Bogus Fees Because Its Network Is Being Crushed by “High Demand” (www.yahoo.com)
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[–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 24 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The whole concept is rotten right from the start.

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk maintains an extremely close relationship with Federal Communications Commission chair Brendan Carr.

Under Carr's leadership, Musk's rocket company has effectively been given carte blanche in its efforts to roll out its orbital Starlink broadband service to more Americans, a glaring conflict of interest that could have profound implications for society.

That's despite concerns over thousands or even millions of satellites cluttering our planet's already extremely busy orbit and the environmentally damaging rocket launches that send them up.

And the space-based network is already starting to experience some major strains — as some experts have long predicted.

"How can Europe compete with that?" I ask myself more and more often (also AI bubble/data centers). Hopefully in the long term.

[–] wasabi_noir@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago

Brendan Carr deserves a fate worse than Mr Hands.

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

“How can Europe compete with that?” I ask myself more and more often (also AI bubble/data centers). Hopefully in the long term.

The competition with Starlink is the Eutelsat Group with it's Oneweb satellite internet product. This is a French company. The founder was championing LEO satellite internet before SpaceX was in the game. Oneweb actually has the more preferred orbital slots and frequencies that SpaceX wanted. However SpaceX far outpaced Oneweb in technological growth as well as orbital constellation deployment.

From a consumer point of view Oneweb is massively more expensive to subscribe to than Starlink. 100GB of Starlink data will cost you $55/month while the hardware will cost $300. 100GB of Oneweb will cost you $325/month with the cheapest hardware costing $3800.

[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Aren't they building an LEO constellation backed by the EU and ESA?

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

The primary Oneweb constellation exists right now in orbit. You can buy hardware and service today if you wanted to. Also yes, they continue to expand the constellation.

[–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

The article states that pushing consumer satellite internet instead of cables/mobile is basically BS, in my words.

The question wasn't so literal. Much broader.