Don’t hold your breath, there’s little chance of USA’s regulators going after the oligarch’s company.
If they can get people to pay $1,500 fees for access, surely that money would be better directed towards installing fiber in these rural areas to circumvent the need for highly expensive satellite infrastructure?
For the cost of these satellites, we could have full connectivity across the world with land based infrastructure, which would last longer, be easier and cheaper to maintain and recyclable at end-of-life. Oh the satellites are also causing insane damage to the ozone layer as they burn up in it.
LEO internet should have been made illegal the moment it was conceived.
Unfortunately running cable is insanely expensive. $60k per mile to trench.
