SpaceX is fighting a subpoena by the Department of Justice for records as part of a probe of whether the Elon Musk company discriminates against foreigners.
(Feb 5): The U.S. Federal Communications Commission faces pressure from rural internet service providers to deny a planned US$886 million subsidy to Elon Musk’s SpaceX for beaming broadband to underserved areas from outer space.
Even before winning a competition for the funds, SpaceX had set up its service and begun launching satellites. More than 1,000 of the Starlink craft are now aloft, providing service to test subscribers. The company says its system “is uniquely positioned to deliver high-quality broadband service to the hardest-to-reach rural Americans.”
But that hasn’t stopped complaints about it winning a competition for subsidies from the FCC’s Rural Digital Opportunity Fund, in part because the service was being built without the aid and isn’t limited to rural areas. The planned awards to Space Exploration Technologies Corp., as it’s formally known, and to other companies have lawmakers raising questions about the entire US$9.2 billion program.
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Elon Musk’s Starlink internet service, which aims to provide high-speed satellite internet to the entire globe, has over 10,000 users despite only being in its beta testing phase, Business Insider reported.
Starlink is a division of Musk’s multi-billion dollar aerospace company SpaceX, which asked in petition to the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Thursday that the company be designated an “Eligible Telecommunications Carrier.”
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If successful, SpaceX would be eligible for funding from the U.S. government, including hundreds of millions of dollars in subsidies it won in December.
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