Seven years. US Broadband providers have seven years to take us over the coals, practice full bore capitalism with our data and generally run oligilistic practices until their time even begins to run out
I'm afraid I don't understand what you're trying to insinuate here. Capitalism is part and parcel to disruptive services such as this one entering a space where established players have created price fixing opportunities for themselves. The oligopoly you're deriding is what enables innovations like this in the first place.
Plus NASA contracts.
Why does capitalism always get bashed by people who don't know what it is?
They bash it exactly because they don't understand it and they listen to whatever they read on Facebook that tells them why it is evil. Basic Economics education outside of University and even within University is strongly lacking in this country. We need mandatory personal finance/macro economics courses as part of high school.
Do you expect a government-funded education system to teach them real economics?
I'll believe it when I see it.
They managed to somehow stop Google Fiber, they might be able to stop SpaceX as well.
They didn't stop Google Fiber. GF own gutless management did.
"They" didn't stop satellite Internet, in fact there's a Federal law that requires that everyone facilitate small dish installations.
You have alternatives now; 4G cellular is one example. But they are difficult and/or expensive. We'll have to see if this solution is different; right now it's just a plan.
If it's difficult and/or expensive, it's not a real alternative, isn't it?
I'm using 3G or 4G as a cheaper alternative to landline broadband. It's… acceptable, but not amazing. 20 GB per month doesn't go as far as it used to before I started watching so many YouTube videos, even though I use 144p whenever possible.
You should check out T-Mobile. They have free video streaming if you enable it, but it forcibly downgrades the video streams to no higher than 720p. That still sounds like much better than you have however.