[stuckindoors]

Then Starlink doesn't have to participate.

The market is flawed - hence the NYS government is trying to fix the issue that ISPs don't provide a minimum service at a low cost.

NYS is attempting to fix the issues with the market. Companies that don't love their rules can just participate in the regular market. Its pretty simple.

[subarctic]

Sounds like they can participate as long as they stay limited to 20,000 users in NY State

[pertymcpert]

This is just a subsidy from normal rate payers to the low income payers. We already have a mechanism for that, it's called income tax.