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I wonder how this will fare vs Starlink, which seems like it's trying to solve the same problem.

• magicsmoke 6y ago
  Starlink will probably do better than 5G for access to rural areas because you don't need to build out a physical cable. In highly dense urban areas with large numbers of simultaneous users, 5G is a better fit.
  • dylan604 6y ago
    Have the 5G towers connect to Starlink rather than running the cabling to them.
    • selectodude 6y ago
      That doesn't really fix the total bandwidth capacity issue though.
      • kalleboo 6y ago
        I wonder if a tower with a larger array of Starlink antennas could connect to multiple satellites and get more performance than the pizzabox-sized consumer receivers
  • thu2111 6y ago
    In many cases you can link base stations to other downlink points using lasers or really tight beams though. It's not like they can only go upwards.