Earth to the FCC: Elon Musk’s Starlink Works

It is clear that nobody at the Federal Communications Commission has used the Starlink service. We have a cabin in the woods in rural South Carolina that is in an internet desert. It gets no wired internet, no wired telephone service and weak and spotty cellphone service, with no prospect of improvement. I recently subscribed to the Starlink standard service. The equipment arrived promptly, setup was quick and easy, and the signal is rock solid, with no weather interruptions. Download speed is as fast as the wired internet service at our home in town. Upload speed is faster than at home. We now have streaming TV, reliable internet phone and plenty of speed to support Zoom calls for work—and the cost is reasonable. The FCC may think that this technology is unproven, but it works pretty well for us.