Amazon asked FCC to reject Starlink plan because it can’t compete, according to SpaceX

SpaceX told the Federal Communications Commission that Amazon's attempt to block proposals for the next-generation Starlink system is a "delay tactic" and a continuation of Amazon's strategy of "hinder[ing] competitors to compensate for Amazon's failure to make progress of its own." Amazon urged the FCC to reject an update to SpaceX's Starlink plan because it "proposes two different configurations for the nearly 30,000 satellites of its Gen2 System, each of which arranges these satellites along very different orbital parameters." Amazon contends that SpaceX's plan violates a rule requiring applications to be complete and have no internal inconsistencies. In SpaceX's response, the company said that Amazon's own Kuiper satellite system plan is speculative. SpaceX concluded its filing by quoting Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. "As Amazon's former chief executive has said in the past, procedural maneuvers—like the ones Amazon now deploys—have 'become the bigger bottleneck than the technology,'" SpaceX told the FCC.