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# Carr: FCC Unlikely to Restore Starlink RDOF Subsidy
- URL: https://broadbandbreakfast.com/carr-fcc-unlikely-to-restore-starlink-rdof-subsidy/
- Published: 2024-11-22T17:47:27.000Z
- Updated: 2026-03-11T06:00:31.000Z
- Description: Agency denied Starlink $885 million in 2022.
- Author: Ari Bertenthal
- Tags: SpaceX, RDOF, #with-siderail, Briefs, Brendan Carr, Elon Musk, FCC, Reuters, Christopher Cardaci, #no-flux

WASHINGTON, Nov. 22, 2024 – Incoming Federal Communications Commission Chairman **Brendan Carr** does not think that the agency can reverse a decision to [withhold federal funds](https://broadbandbreakfast.com/carr-surprised-by-rdof-denials-new-normal-on-supply-chain-68m-for-student-connectivity/) from the world’s leading satellite internet provider, according to Reuters

“It's very unlikely the FCC would revisit that,” Carr [said to reporters](https://www.schwab.wallst.com/research/public/news/viewStory?YYY20%5Fty9M1HpQ1xUTvnGoNpekOBHH15MCbStyj/SEmSmzcMkaDFnNI6R/HANHyGmfGSMo4HOCK9w5J81NFm6EQY2Nbc72XvB4M6zVgKzoOfQvWyW54eIEt3JAvQ==&a=1&ref=broadbandbreakfast.com) Thursday. Reuters said Carr "cited procedural grounds because \[Starlink parent\] SpaceX had not sought further appeal or reconsideration.”

The FCC denied [**Elon Musk’s** Starlink](https://broadbandbreakfast.com/starlink-passes-4-million-subscribers-globally/) more than $885 million in federal funding from the $20.4 billion Rural Digital Opportunity Fund in 2022 based on the agency’s view that the satellite-delivered Internet company failed to deliver on its obligation to provide high-speed internet access to 642,000 rural locations.

SpaceX’s Vice President of Legal **Christopher Cardaci** said that the FCC’s 2022 decision was disappointing and deeply perplexing in [a December 2023 statement](https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/document/121299238977/1?ref=broadbandbreakfast.com). The FCC reaffirmed its decision in December of 2023 after a challenge issued by Starlink.

[The RDOF program](https://broadbandbreakfast.com/rdof-winners-seek-amnesty-amidst-rising-costs/) is an FCC program designed to bring high-speed broadband service to unserved and underserved rural communities across the United States.

Carr has historically challenged the FCC’s decision against Musk’s company, arguing that it represented a “pattern of regulatory harassment” on the part of the Biden administration.