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by josefritzishere
612 days ago
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The 900M was earmarked to build infastructure as any terestrial ISP would have had to construction costs to build out services. For Starlink it would basically be money for nothing. A planned program to give consumers free routers and dishes would not even necessarily ISP-facing. That could be done directly with consumers either as tax credits, or the like. |
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RDOF in particular required installation and battery backup.
It's not money for nothing and ground stations aren't free.
The plan was to deliver a free to the customer bundle with telephony