FCC rejects Starlink’s bid for rural internet subsidies due to its $600 satellite dish
August 10, 2022
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has rejected Starlink’s application for $885 million in federal subsidies that it would use to provide satellite internet to broadband customers in rural areas. The FCC states that the SpaceX-owned company’s dish is simply too expensive and that Starlink “failed to demonstrate” that it “could deliver the promised service.”
The funding is part…