{"id":144121,"date":"2022-08-16T00:14:33","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T05:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/elon-musks-bid-for-a-886-million-starlink-subsidy-was-rejected-by-the-fcc-it-failed-to-demonstrate-that-it-could-deliver"},"modified":"2022-08-16T00:14:33","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T05:14:33","slug":"elon-musks-bid-for-a-886-million-starlink-subsidy-was-rejected-by-the-fcc-it-failed-to-demonstrate-that-it-could-deliver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/elon-musks-bid-for-a-886-million-starlink-subsidy-was-rejected-by-the-fcc-it-failed-to-demonstrate-that-it-could-deliver","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk\u2019s bid for a $886 million Starlink subsidy was rejected by the FCC: \u2018it failed to demonstrate\u2019 that it \u2018could deliver\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/elon-musks-bid-for-a-886-million-starlink-subsidy-was-rejected-by-the-fcc-it-failed-to-demonstrate-that-it-could-deliver2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Federal Communications Commission denied SpaceX\u2019s bid for $886 million in US subsidies on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Elon Musk\u2019s startup was seeking funds to provide its satellite internet service to rural communities in nearly 650,000 locations across 35 states. The FCC funding is part of a $9.2 billion Rural Digital Opportunity Fund \u2014 an effort to bring WiFi to remote areas of the country where it would be more expensive to serve customers.<\/p>\n<p>Starlink and LTD Broadband were both denied FCC subsidies. The agency said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fcc.gov\/document\/fcc-rejects-ltd-broadband-starlink-bids-broadband-subsidies\">press release<\/a> that both companies \u201cfailed to demonstrate that the providers could deliver the promised service.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Communications Commission denied SpaceX\u2019s bid for $886 million in US subsidies on Wednesday. Elon Musk\u2019s startup was seeking funds to provide its satellite internet service to rural communities in nearly 650,000 locations across 35 states. The FCC funding is part of a $9.2 billion Rural Digital Opportunity Fund \u2014 an effort to bring [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,418,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-internet","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}