Starlink operator SpaceX is fighting Virginia’s plan to deploy fiber Internet service to residents, claiming that federal grant money should be given to Starlink instead. SpaceX is already in line to win over $3 million in grant money in the state but is seeking $60 million.

Starlink is poised to benefit from the Trump administration rewriting rules for the $42 billion Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) grant program. While the Biden administration decided that states should prioritize fiber in order to build more future-proof networks, the Trump administration ordered states to revise their plans with a “tech-neutral approach” and lower the average cost of serving each location.

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      21 month ago

      I’m not sure how that’s relevant. The OP claimed he wasn’t a citizen, I corrected that.

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            21 month ago

            No it does not. It implies activity in and from ither places as well as this one. Which it is.

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              -11 month ago

              That’s not how these words work.

              I get that you don’t like Elon Musk, and that’s completely fair. But that doesn’t make it okay to just change the meaning of words so it can fit your narrative, whatever that means.

              If Elon Musk commits an act of terrorism, he would be a domestic terrorist. That’s how words are defined.