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My Internet here is like 1-3 Mbps if I'm lucky because I have 2 shitty options. Launch some more of these fuckers up there so I can have useful Internet.
How about we encourage more competition or make it state owned instead?
Starling isn’t competing with terrestrial ISPs, it’s competing with other sat-isps and WISPs which will never get better internet otherwise.
I mean it is competing with terrestrial ISPs who continue to offer fewer megabits than you have fingers in the year of our lord 2023
Make it owned by the people responsible for us having shit Internet to start with. Brilliant, what could go wrong?
Make it owned by the people responsible for us having shit Internet to start with. Brilliant, what could go wrong?
Capitalists are the reason for that. Government involvement is just that the rules weren't written well enough (although sometimes on purpose because they're being paid, but still it's the fault of capitalists, not the government).
No ... the government is responsible for us. Lt having a useful public service. Capitalism is trash but at least we have space internet which is more than we were ever going to get from rich old fucks making laws. But then we get full on exceptional individuals that get angry because they think it's gonna stop them from moving to Mars...... in the words of Danny Boone " ain't no motherfuckers gonna live on Mars".