In FCC’s High-Cost Modernization Docket, SpaceX Stands Alone
SpaceX wants the FCC to sunset ‘high-cost’ rural broadband subsidies – almost no one else agrees.
WASHINGTON, August 6, 2026 – SpaceX asked federal regulators again Tuesday to eliminate the government’s High-Cost broadband subsidy programs, arguing the programs have “outlived their purpose” and the money would be better spent elsewhere.
But virtually every other stakeholder opposed SpaceX’s proposal. Rural telephone cooperatives, cable operators, fiber associations, wireless infrastructure firms and carrier groups urged the FCC to modernize the programs rather than eliminate them, arguing the subsidies remain essential to keeping broadband available and affordable in high-cost, rural areas.
