{"id":144127,"date":"2022-08-16T00:15:28","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T05:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/fcc-cancels-886-million-in-funding-for-spacexs-starlink"},"modified":"2022-08-16T00:15:28","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T05:15:28","slug":"fcc-cancels-886-million-in-funding-for-spacexs-starlink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/fcc-cancels-886-million-in-funding-for-spacexs-starlink","title":{"rendered":"FCC Cancels $886 Million in Funding for SpaceX\u2019s Starlink"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/fcc-cancels-886-million-in-funding-for-spacexs-starlink2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Commission determined that these applications failed to demonstrate that the providers could deliver the promised service,\u201d the FCC said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel added: \u201cWe cannot afford to subsidize ventures that are not delivering the promised speeds or are not likely to meet program requirements.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In December 2020, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcmag.com\/news\/spacexs-starlink-to-receive-886-million-from-fcc-to-improve-rural-broadband\">the FCC tentatively awarded<\/a> $886 million to SpaceX to help its Starlink service supply high-speed broadband to 642,925 locations in 35 states. However, it came with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fcc.gov\/auction\/904\/factsheet\" target=\"_blank\">requirement (Opens in a new window)<\/a> that SpaceX provide a long-form application about how Starlink would meet its obligations before the federal funding could be fully secured.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe Commission determined that these applications failed to demonstrate that the providers could deliver the promised service,\u201d the FCC said in a statement. FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel added: \u201cWe cannot afford to subsidize ventures that are not delivering the promised speeds or are not likely to meet program requirements.\u201d In December 2020, the FCC tentatively [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144127","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=144127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}