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But it does not have the costs associated with building a tower in that area.

• p1mrx 6y ago
  If you're in an area where it's not worth building cell towers, then Starlink will have plenty of bandwidth... but that's not where most people live. When you look at a city from orbit, you see millions of radios all stacked on top of each other, screaming. That can never scale as well as a distributed array of towers.
  • tinus_hn 6y ago
    Maybe. Or maybe in these areas it’s even more expensive to waste space on towers.
    • p1mrx 6y ago
      Land use by towers is ~0%, and the ones we need have mostly been built already. Next should we eliminate WiFi because it's wasting expensive real estate?