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Carlos Slim’s telecom giant, América Móvil, canceled $22 billion in planned Starlink orders after Elon Musk insinuated Slim had ties to drug cartels.

The decision, made within hours of Musk’s tweet, costs Musk his main partner in 25 countries and shifts business to Chinese and European competitors, further reducing U.S. commercial influence.

Musk’s increasing political entanglements and conspiracy-laden posts are alienating key business partners and consumers, with potential ripple effects on Tesla sales.

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[-] DronePirate@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 4 months ago

I've never been a customer so this might be a dumb question. What does 4 units represent?

[-] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

In terms of what? Cost? No idea, that's some other departments problem.

As for use case, it is for outfitting two ships with internet access better than the usual 2-5mbit VSAT. Two antennae each to account for loss of coverage on one antenna due to the superstructure possibly getting in the way.

We use it to improve remote operation of offshore hardware, but starlink isn't as good as it used to be. When first installing it in January 2021 it was great, 150mbit+, but as more and more people bought starlink, performance dropped significantly.

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