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Starlink wants billions in grants, but state governments aren’t cooperating
Despite Trump’s backing, states aren’t giving Starlink the money it demanded.
Musk clearly expected a big windfall; as we've written, SpaceX alleges that Virginia and Louisiana violated the Trump administration's rules by allocating most of the money to fiber providers instead of Starlink's satellite service. An earlier version of West Virginia's plan would have spent $946 million in BEAD funding to serve about 110,000 locations with fiber, but the state scaled it back to meet the Trump administration mandate to lower costs. "Many states are skeptical that giving money to satellite actually provides their residents anything they don't already have," New Street Research analyst Blair Levin, who was the FCC's chief of staff from 1993 to 1997 and oversaw development of the agency's National Broadband Plan in 2010, told Ars this week.
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