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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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[–] flop_leash_973@lemmy.world 18 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

“I can complain about Starlink raising their prices, but it’s the only genuine option we have,” former Nebraska state senator and Republican Julie Slama told the Washington Post last month. “Once they have rural customers on their service with no meaningful alternatives, they’re free to raise prices at will.”

Should we pull up the record and see who voted to allow that to happen in Nebraska while on the subject?

[–] ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 12 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

"We only have the option to use this hyper expensive private satellite service... because we spent all of the wired rollout grants/funding on bullshit."

[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 6 points 2 hours ago

because we spent all of the wired rollout grants/funding on bullshit.

Oh, it's worse than that. The grant money was the wrong party color, so it had to be disposed of rather than lead to a positive outcome.