SpaceX in Talks with NTIA to Deploy Starlink for BEAD

DENVER, August 6, 2024 – SpaceX President and Chief Operating Officer Gwynne Shotwell has reservations about including the company’s Starlink internet service in the fiber-focused Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment program, but is talking with the U.S. Commerce Department about doing so anyway.

So said Shotwell, the brains and muscle behind Elon Musk’s SpaceX, speaking here in a Tuesday Fireside Chat at the broadband conference Mountain Connect. The chat, complete with interstellar music and video clips of SpaceX rocket launches rockets, was livestreamed on broadband.io.