From: tommie.hicks303@gmail.com   
      
   > I have no idea what Tesla has to do with telephony. Is that a satellite    
   > phone?    
   >    
   > How are you communicating, DSL?    
      
   From what I understand the Tesla phone will use the Starlink infrastructure.    
   The cheapest one is $1,000.   
      
   After begging for DSL from the phone company for two decades I gave up.  In   
   2010 the U.S. Goverment gave the phone company $96,000 to run fiber up our   
   road but it never materialized.  My landline was so decrepit that it would not   
   allow the operation of    
   an internet browser.  I had to use Hughesnet since about 2017.  They promised   
   2.5 gigabytes a second and never delivered on it.  The last four years or so   
   Hughesnet was giving me 14.5 kilobytes a second, nearly 1/4 of dial up speeds   
   for $88 a month.  But    
   I had to keep it for at least I could maintain an e-mail account and browse   
   websites with no videos.  Last October, after 2 years on a waiting list I was   
   able to get Starlink.  The difference was phenomenal.  On Hughesnet I was   
   unable to watch videos,    
   but with Starlink I can run six tabs of youtube videos flawlessly.  Hughesnet   
   made it extremely difficult to sever with them.  They made an unauthorized   
   $700 charge on my credit card which they said was a deposit on the Lna and   
   reciever which they had    
   explicitly said in our contract that those items would be my property if I   
   flawlessly maintained the account for 4 years.  I just received the $700 back   
   two weeks ago, several months after I sent them the equipment.  Hughesnet   
   would not terminate may    
   account until they received the gear so I paid for two months of service, a   
   month and a half after they received the equipment.  Gad what a nightmare.   
      
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