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    Europe’s answer to Starlink is officially starting to come online

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    1. ledow on

      Still waiting for anything not-Musk-related for personal Internet, to be honest.

      The nearest thing is actually Kuiper / Amazon Leo, which is just another billionaire’s plaything.

      I have STUPIDLY clear skies. TERRIBLE broadband. And I’m happy to pay.

      But, honestly, there just isn’t a product out there that I’m willing to touch.

    4. EquivalentKick255 on

      Ah, the EU still pumping billions into something that is already available, called Eutelsat/OneWeb. Strangely, which is already being used by European governments.

    5. rena_ch on

      Idiotic idea, the fact that Europe is trying to mindlessly parrot it is a testament of how far we have fallen. There is no world in which it’s cheaper to launch thousands of short-lived satellites every few years than to blanket the countryside with fiber and cell towers, which we should be doing instead

    6. GinofromUkraine on

      Last phrase (a part about Russia) is priceless. It’s Putin’s Russia summed up to the tee. :-))

    8. Malcx on

      A great example of the problem with Europe – we always end up scrambling for an “answer to ….”. We need to be leaders in technology fields, not just the R&D but actually deploying services at scale and an affordable price point.

      If the UK or EU went full authoritarian, the US would have very little need to “uncouple” on any technical front.

    9. schacks on

      I’m actually a little worried about all the stuff in orbit. There’s a real chance that the amount of debris eventually will lock future generations inside the atmosphere.

    10. czk_21 on

      290 satelites is tiny amount compared to starlink 10k, still this is good move, more autonomy is needed

    11. Slaaneshdog on

      Fine to have the capability as a security thing I guess, but Europe won’t be able to keep operating like this where the US innovates, creates cutting edge tech that they then scale up and make commercially profitable, and then the EU decides that we need that capability internally in the EU, and then some obscenely expensive subpar solution that won’t be remotely competitive commercially is thought up somewhere within the byzantine labyrinthic bureaucracy in Brussels.

      That is simply a path to eventual economic ruin, and people can downvote me all they like for saying that, but the math doesn’t math if the things the EU does as alternatives to US tech aren’t actually commercially viable and competitive.