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It isn't, really. It's actually going to save them money. The system will not have enough aggregate bandwidth to really compete for any dense areas. Right now,
by Tuna-Fish 9y ago
It isn't, really. It's actually going to save them money. The system will not have enough aggregate bandwidth to really compete for any dense areas. Right now, for the major ISPs the dense areas are profit centers that are used to subsidize the rural areas in the states and counties that require an ISP to serve both if it wants to serve the cities. Starlink will not be able to meaningfully compete in the cities, while it will ease the burden of the rural net-negative customers.
- nerpderp83 9y agoRight, and it takes off the monopoly burden from those telcos so they are then free under the same Pai to ratchet up their underhanded techniques. If I were ATT and Verizon, I would fund Starlink.