Elon Musk’s SpaceX Wants The FCC To Kill $4.5 Billion Major Rural Internet Subsidy Program

Elon Musk-led SpaceX has written a letter to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), urging the agency to end the High-Cost program aimed at providing connectivity to rural areas via subsidies for internet service providers (ISPs).

SpaceX Says It Has Solved Connectivity Issues

On Saturday, PCMag reported that it had accessed a letter to the FCC dated May 13 by SpaceX, where the commercial space flight giant said that connectivity issues for “high-speed broadband network access” have “effectively been solved” by SpaceX’s satellite internet service provider Starlink.

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