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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 110 points 2 years ago (19 children)

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 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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!

[–] demlet@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years 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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