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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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[-] Sanctus@lemmy.world 118 points 1 year ago

Starlink is perfect for nationalization. Internet is. Infact, nationalize all utilities. Yes, internet should be a utility at this point. It should not be run for profit.

[-] mailerdaemon@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year 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!

[-] CurlyMoustache@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

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

[-] demlet@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year 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.

[-] sorghum@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 year 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)?

[-] demlet@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Probably not but it would be funny.

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