[Cake] [Starlink] Anhyone have a spare couple a hundred million ... Elon may need to start a go-fund-me page!

[David Lang]

the biggest problem starlink faces is shipping enough devices (and launching the 
satellites to support them), not demand. There are enough people interested in 
paying full price that if the broadband subsities did not exist, it wouldn't 
reduce the demand noticably.

but if the feds are handing out money, SpaceX is foolish not to apply for it.

David Lang

On Tue, 10 Aug 2021, Jeremy Austin wrote:

> Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2021 12:33:11 -0800
> From: Jeremy Austin <jeremy at aterlo.com>
> To: dickroy at alum.mit.edu
> Cc: Cake List <cake at lists.bufferbloat.net>,
>     Make-Wifi-fast <make-wifi-fast at lists.bufferbloat.net>,
>     Bob McMahon <bob.mcmahon at broadcom.com>, starlink at lists.bufferbloat.net,
>     codel <codel at lists.bufferbloat.net>,
>     cerowrt-devel <cerowrt-devel at lists.bufferbloat.net>,
>     bloat <bloat at lists.bufferbloat.net>
> Subject: Re: [Starlink] Anhyone have a spare couple a hundred million ... Elon
>      may need to start a go-fund-me page!
> 
> A 5.7% reduction in funded locations for StarLink is… not dramatic. If the
> project falls on that basis, they've got bigger problems. Much of that
> discrepancy falls squarely on the shoulders of the FCC and incumbent ISPs
> filing form 477, as well as the RDOF auction being held before improving
> mapping — as Rosenworcel pointed out. The state of broadband mapping is
> still dire.
>
> If I felt like the reallocation of funds would be 100% guaranteed to
> benefit the end Internet user… I'd cheer too.
>
> If.
>
> JHA
>
> On Tue, Aug 10, 2021 at 12:16 PM Dick Roy <dickroy at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>
>> You may find this of some relevance!
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/07/ajit-pai-apparently-mismanaged-9-billion-fund-new-fcc-boss-starts-cleanup/
>>
>>
>>
>> Cheers (or whatever!),
>>
>>
>>
>> RR
>>
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