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SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink (arstechnica.com)

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[–] Deflated0ne@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

That's insane.

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

what do you mean fiber "plans"? do you guys not have fiber?

[–] Darleys_Brew@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago

I live in a backwater northern U.K. town. We have fibre. I’d have thought somewhere like USA was rolling it out to most places.

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[–] Vile_port_aloo@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

SpaceX should deliver the service and access at the cost given and complete before the fiber team put a shovel in that ground.

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah, because all the gamers love to play online with a 3 second latency.

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