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I agree Starlink is poised to be very successful at providing high speed internet to rural areas. But that doesn’t negate the point that it required the govt to do so because SpaceX would not exist if it didn’t get high risk govt contracts. Also, I wouldn’t compare it to terrestrial internet unless you advocate it being a regulated utility in the same way, which I doubt Musk or investors would want. Different rules, different constraints.



True - but the BEAD Program delivered internet to 40k households. Starlink has 1.4m users in the US alone.

It seems pretty clear to me that Starlink has been a good investment, from both private and public perspectives


That's RDOF. BEAD is zero




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