Some_Emo_Chick@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoElon Musk Is Charging Starlink Customers Gigantic Bogus Fees Because Its Network Is Being Crushed by “High Demand”tech.yahoo.comexternal-linkmessage-square61linkfedilinkarrow-up1393
arrow-up1393external-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 · 1 month agomessage-square61linkfedilink
minus-squarepotpotato@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·1 month agoBecause they lobbied to shutdown running fiber to your community.
minus-squarecmnybo@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 month 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.