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Ajit Pai apparently mismanaged $9 billion fund—new FCC boss starts “cleanup”

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | LdF) The Federal Communications Commission wants SpaceX to give up a portion of the $885.51 million in broadband funding it was awarded in a reverse auction in December 2020. SpaceX’s Starlink satellite broadband division was one of the biggest winners in the FCC’s Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) grants announced […]

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SpaceX gets FCC approval to Bidding at $16 billion rural-broadband auction

Expand / / A SpaceX Starlink consumer terminal/satellite dish. (charge: SpaceX) SpaceX is among 386 entities which have qualified to bid at a national auction to get rural-broadband financing. SpaceX has thus much defeat the Federal Communications Commission’s doubts concerning if Starlink, its low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite support, can offer latency of under 100ms […]