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Other satellite providers didn't tell the federal government they can handle 100mbps in exchange for a huge pot of government money...

This is the issue in a nutshell: Starlink agreed to meet a specific threshold in exchange for government funds, and these tests suggest that Starlink will have difficulty accomplishing this if they can't manage to do it when their network isn't saturated.



Yes, that is the issue in a nutshell and I wasn’t arguing otherwise…

This piece from Ookla is claiming that Starlink isn’t hitting those numbers based on data from Ookla, not SpaceX.




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