Musk blasts FCC for ‘illegally’ pulling Starlink award, says it would’ve helped victims of Hurricane Helene

Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk on Wednesday said that the Federal Communications Commission’s decision to not move forward with an award for SpaceX’s Starlink to provide rural broadband may have cost lives in North Carolina when it was hit by Hurricane Helene.

Musk, the CEO of SpaceX, responded to a post on X from a user who noted that “North Carolina would have 19,522 working Starlink kits available today after Hurricane Helene had the FCC not revoked in bad faith the grant that was awarded to SpaceX as the winning bidd