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You'd be surprised. I have relatives who live ten minutes from a McDonald's and still have no option for internet besides satellite with a bandwidth cap of a fe
by Causality1 5y ago
You'd be surprised. I have relatives who live ten minutes from a McDonald's and still have no option for internet besides satellite with a bandwidth cap of a few gigabytes a month. They can't enjoy Netflix, YouTube, or Disney Plus. Their kids can't buy digital download video games. When Starlink drops their base station price a bit and I talk them into it it will be absolutely transformative for them.
- bpodgursky 5y agoI don't mean to suggest this won't affect them but... kids in rural Africa being able to connect to the internet for school / college / business is a lot more interesting to me than people in the rural US being able to consume a different form of television.
- Causality1 5y agoMy nephew spent half of last year working from a take-home packet because he couldn't do Zoom class. It's not as different as you think.
- Khelavaster 5y agoIn many more densly-settled rural areas like mine, outside Redmond WA, not even DSL is an option because Frontier refuses to add more DSL hookup hardware. T-mobile doesn't offer 5-g Internet in my area either. So I'm forced to use ordinary (Verizon) 4G hotspots for Internet.