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from the article, ISPs are interested and presumably they will turn the flat pricing into plans. Dropping a solar powered cell tower with Starlink backhaul on

• londons_explore 5y ago
  'top of a mountain' cell transmitters (ie. high power ones) tend to be expensive. The gear can easily cost $50k, and if solar powered, you're probably talking about another $50k for all the panels and batteries to keep a multi-kilowatt load running 24x7. At that point, the cost of a microwave backhaul, even if you end up needing a few repeaters, is a small percentage of the project cost. That means even if starlink works out cheaper than the microwave backhaul, you won't see a sudden growth of these kinds of rural transmitters, since the economics for the phone company don't change much.