Some_Emo_Chick@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoElon Musk Is Charging Starlink Customers Gigantic Bogus Fees Because Its Network Is Being Crushed by “High Demand”tech.yahoo.comexternal-linkmessage-square48linkfedilinkarrow-up1376arrow-down18
arrow-up1368arrow-down1external-linkElon Musk Is Charging Starlink Customers Gigantic Bogus Fees Because Its Network Is Being Crushed by “High Demand”tech.yahoo.comSome_Emo_Chick@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square48linkfedilink
minus-squarepotpotato@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·2 months agoBecause they lobbied to shutdown running fiber to your community.
minus-squarecmnybo@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 months agoThe local ISP has been promising fiber for over a decade. They waited until Starlink took most of their customers before they started putting it in.
minus-squareSaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoMaybe someday someone can explain why ISPs are not municipal services like water and sewage.
minus-squareadarza@piefed.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agothere is 100s of miles of fiber spools just sitting for years at a utility maintenance yard here. the provider that was doing the work to expand services just took the rest of the free money and split.
Because they lobbied to shutdown running fiber to your community.
The local ISP has been promising fiber for over a decade. They waited until Starlink took most of their customers before they started putting it in.
Maybe someday someone can explain why ISPs are not municipal services like water and sewage.
there is 100s of miles of fiber spools just sitting for years at a utility maintenance yard here. the provider that was doing the work to expand services just took the rest of the free money and split.