SpaceX projected 20 million Starlink users by 2022—it ended up with 1 million::Starlink has a fraction of the projected $12B revenue and 20M users, WSJ says.

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      10 months ago

      As someone who lives in a country that formerly had a nationalized phone company in the internet age, and currently has a nationalized power company and airline. Dear God fuck no!

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        10 months ago

        In my country, the main backbone is built, owned and operated by the government. The services on it are privatized

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        10 months ago

        I say we let him build up a huge satellite fleet and then force him to sell a huge chunk of it under antitrust law.

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          10 months ago

          You mean the same government that allowed XM and Sirius to merge with no other satellite radio competition would go after Starlink when they have competition (Hughesnet)?