Will never use his services or products. Until he is dead and his children divest.
are his children/baby mamas even eligble to his fortune. probably only the one that he used as a human shield. it will be hilarious when 14+ children fight in court for his money,.
And they pay it? Outside of contract?
The whole concept is rotten right from the start.
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk maintains an extremely close relationship with Federal Communications Commission chair Brendan Carr.
Under Carr’s leadership, Musk’s rocket company has effectively been given carte blanche in its efforts to roll out its orbital Starlink broadband service to more Americans, a glaring conflict of interest that could have profound implications for society.
That’s despite concerns over thousands or even millions of satellites cluttering our planet’s already extremely busy orbit and the environmentally damaging rocket launches that send them up.
And the space-based network is already starting to experience some major strains — as some experts have long predicted.
“How can Europe compete with that?” I ask myself more and more often (also AI bubble/data centers). Hopefully in the long term.
“How can Europe compete with that?” I ask myself more and more often (also AI bubble/data centers). Hopefully in the long term.
The competition with Starlink is the Eutelsat Group with it’s Oneweb satellite internet product. This is a French company. The founder was championing LEO satellite internet before SpaceX was in the game. Oneweb actually has the more preferred orbital slots and frequencies that SpaceX wanted. However SpaceX far outpaced Oneweb in technological growth as well as orbital constellation deployment.
From a consumer point of view Oneweb is massively more expensive to subscribe to than Starlink. 100GB of Starlink data will cost you $55/month while the hardware will cost $300. 100GB of Oneweb will cost you $325/month with the cheapest hardware costing $3800.
Aren’t they building an LEO constellation backed by the EU and ESA?
Brendan Carr deserves a fate worse than Mr Hands.
Fine by me. All his customers are a bunch of suckers
I am an IT bod with a mountain rescue team in the UK. Personally I would bin starlink in a heartbeat. I dislike Elon, I dislike the privatisation of satellite garbage. The impact it had on the night sky, on astronomy. I dislike the pettish for abuse from a fascist American oligarchy and government.
However… For now it is by far the single best option when cell communications are out of range.
Ehh, some are. Some just live so far out that the sweet song of broadband feels worth it.
I hate the fuck out of the man, but if I were doing camper life, i’d want it.
Yep
At the end of the day it serves a purpose nothing else does
Frankly i couldnt care less about spacex (both the rockets and satelites) if anyone else even close
Unfortunatly their competitors are at a similar place to where they were a decade ago
Yeah I know a Yupik woman who’s talked about how much it improved things in the village she’s from. Places that need a small plane charter and a snowmobile to visit still benefit from having internet these days
Ukraine is a user, as is (with stolen terminals) Russia.
I mean, high demand shouldn’t justify surprise pricing
We’ve noticed that our service no longer works properly, so we’re going to charge you more for it.
Karma?
The world’s first trillionaire doesn’t get to call anyone else greedy.
Clearly it does.
That tweet is almost impressively stupid.
What the fuck does the download size of Wikipedia have to do with anything?
I can also fit some of the largest LLMs on my phone. Where is all that AI investment going to???
Bad example, maybe.
I think they’ll rug pull hard line internet for residents.
It’s all that escaped with a bit of net neutrality.
Cellular and satalitte both allow traffic shaping and that’s the more profitable.
Hell, maybe they can nationalize it and get Elin paid.
You can traffic shape wired traffic as well
I thought that was still legally protected, but I know it’s been a target for a while.
Hell, maybe they can nationalize it and get Elin paid.
Nationalizing it and turning it into a public utility instead of for profit would be a good thing. Or in this case it should belong to the whole world and run by the UN.
I just can’t imagine having such excessive wealth and not saying “eh, whatever” when someone tells me I’m losing money on some internet fees.
You fucker, you could make the world at least a tiny bit better for billions of people at virtually no expense to you, but you just keep playing your stupid fucking rich manchildren games with your billionaire parasite buddies.
Keep grinding bro, maybe this way you’ll get used to the feeling of having your bones crushed in the grinder.
It isn’t just the company leader. It is the brigade of product managers, pricing accountants and more that are involved in these types of corporate consensus decisions.
There is a fleet of people who see their bonuses, commissions, and rev share increasing.
Greed is contagious.
It’s not evem really losing money it’s inventing in the infrastructure youre using to make money.
It makes more sense when you realize his wealth is all smoke and mirrors based on a shared lie.
That’s why you’d never attain that wealth.
I know, he’s better than me by a factor of his net worth divided by my net worth. So around, what, 100 millions times?
Not better, just a hoarder.
It’s why there are no good rich people.
You don’t get that wealthy in the first place by not gobbling up every fucking penny you have a chance to. You think he’s just going to take the dub and stop?
LOL…from the beginning of this grift, experts said Starlink was not scalable.
From what I see, 99% of the business community thinks all graphs linearly extrapolate.
Spoiler alert: AI learning is not scaling either.
Theyre still improving bandwidth with each launch as the newer hardware goes up, they haven’t approached the flat line of 1 dish comes down for 1 dish going up which would be at the 5 year mark of no improved hardware or launch capabilities.
Once starship is operational, its 20x the bandwidth per launch, and cadence will increase so there’s still tons of room to scale, and its not like those dishes wont improve either.
“High demand” meaning underprovisioning.
When do I get charged??
I’ve had Starlink for two years. My monthly bill is $55 a month, and no rental either…
Common dude, don’t support elon
We don’t all live in overcrowded cities.
There are no options in rural areas, yet.
For many people, their options are supporting Elon, or not having internet access. I don’t blame anyone for choosing the former.
Poor Elon, down to his last Trillion
First trillion?
Sending money to a clown and NOT expecting a fucking circus, are we?
This is sooo on cue, right as my AI loving IT colleagues are talking about getting starlink, only to have a backup internet connection in case of an outage.
