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Starlink is now accessible across the White House campus, which was already served by fiber cable, after service was “donated”, as some cite security concerns. (economictimes.com)
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White House officials said the installation was an effort to increase internet availability at the complex. They said that some areas of the property could not get cell service and that the existing Wi-Fi infrastructure was overtaxed.

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[–] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 53 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

"some areas of the property could not get cell service"

Like the bunkers? Like hell did the white house not have cell service.

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 5 points 9 hours ago

Also how did they let that excuse get past the technical teams who should be implementing this? They added Star Link to the data center that supports the White House and then have traffic run through hard wires. This does absolutely nothing to improve spots with bad WiFi.

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 27 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I can believe areas of the White House have no cell service, on purpose. Remember when they found those fake cell towers around DC?

https://www.wired.com/story/dcs-stingray-dhs-surveillance/

I bet at some point they installed some cell phone jammers specifically to limit the amount of foreign spying that could be done by fake towers, and they simply "forgot" to tell the incoming Trump administration....

[–] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 29 points 17 hours ago

probably more likely they fired the original IT team and replaced them with Muskite interns

[–] evasive_chimpanzee@lemmy.world 10 points 17 hours ago

Plenty of federal facilities have garbage reception. I think it's probably due to the bureaucracy involved in telecoms installing their hardware on sensitive property. The White House in particular probably has lots of thick walls/armor attenuating signals, too.