Shares in Eutelsat surged more than 60% on Tuesday, extending their gains after rising 68% a day before, as recent geopolitical developments raised the prospect of OneWeb satellites replacing Elon...

They say they’re a viable alternative to starlink and ready to start - not sure how much true is that

I read a musk fan saying “but their terminals aren’t made in a NATO country” - isn’t the same for starlink?

  • Alphane Moon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    211·
    9 hours ago

    The Americans are definitely going to cut off StarLink, we don’t have any option even if OneWeb isn’t fully ready.

    • scratchee@feddit.ukEnglish
      12·
      6 hours ago

      Yeah, it’ll definitely be worse using a less complete constellation, but at least you can probably trust them to not fuck around and ruin military operations out of malicious political flailing, or whatever it is that Musk is doing constantly, so that’ll be a nice change of pace.

      • Wispy2891@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
        2·
        1 hour ago

        or that you won’t get baited&switched with the “we will give thousands of completely free* terminals”

        *=each “free” terminal is subject to a $500/month usage fee