I wonder if constellations like Starlink will make these efforts superfluous? The extraordinary cost of broadband expansion in rural areas is due to building ou

I wonder if constellations like Starlink will make these efforts superfluous? The extraordinary cost of broadband expansion in rural areas is due to building out the infrastructure which will never be directly profitable. Satellites I assume don’t have the same problem. You add coverage at latitudes not zip codes. The military can fund the build-out and end up saving money overall because they are primary high-value users of a global network of this sort. I think the biggest factor is getting user terminals cheap enough. There was an article today about the number of people who are wasting $150/year renting a cable modem. I wonder what the ASP of the terminals will be once production has scaled up?