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FCC decides against giving Starlink $1b in rural broadband subsidies

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Re: Don't blow your wad

That's something only broadband providers without competition can do. Everywhere else broadband prices go down and/or speeds improve, because technology is improving at a much faster pace than even our current bout of inflation can put pressure on them to rise.

Starlink would not be able to do that either if they weren't essentially the only game in town for rural customers (there is Hughes in the US, but as a GSO satellite provider the latency and speed is worse, but needing far fewer satellites at least the price is lower also)

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