FCC head Brendan Carr tells Europe to get on board with Starlink
by Kieran Smith and Peggy Hollinger, Financial Times from Ars Technica - All content on (#6WMTS)
One of President Donald Trump's top officials has warned European allies hesitant about working with Elon Musk's satellite Internet company that they needed to choose between US and Chinese technology.
Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr told the Financial Times that allied western democracies" needed to focus on the real long-term bogey: the rise of the Chinese Communist party."
His comments come as European governments and some European companies consider whether Starlink-which is owned by Musk's SpaceX and provides satellite broadband and limited mobile services-is a reliable partner after Washington threatened to switch off its services in Ukraine.