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by inemesitaffia 619 days ago
I've seen people distributing it. Like this

https://x.com/TheShawnHendrix/status/1844812943529254942

https://x.com/WorldMobileTeam/status/1844858574737961241

https://x.com/SawyerMerritt/status/1843039646235635868

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/184120713742013254

https://x.com/DrPhil/status/1843840218614640687

https://x.com/Unitedcajunnavy/status/1843985998721524222

And of course, there's FEMA

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The musk link gave a "please retry", I was unable to read it.

Some of the links felt a bit like puff pieces and none quite helped. The cajun navy link clarified free of service cost to users - but that was not my intended question.

You said the equipment is properly free. To clarify, are you referring to end users, or free to those delivering the equipment to begin with? My impression was the latter. In which case I wanted to know how you knew that, and what exactoy was "many".

My question was not: how many people are using starlink devices for free? My apologies if that seemed like that was the question I was asking. Perhaps I misunderstood what you meant by "it is properly free" (which I interpreted as spaceX giving the equipment away)