FCC Affirms It Won’t Grant $886 Million Subsidy to SpaceX (2)

The US Federal Communications Commission reaffirmed that it would not give Elon Musk’s SpaceX nearly $900 million in subsidy payments for rural service.

• The company’s Starlink satellite internet couldn’t deliver the promised performance required to be included in the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund, the FCC said in a statement Tuesday
• In September 2022, SpaceX appealed the FCC’s earlier decision denying it the $886 million in subsidies
• US agency “followed a careful legal, technical and policy review,” said FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel, a Democrat
• Republican Commissioner Brendan Carr dissents; calls the decision part of a “pattern of regulatory harassment” ...