> The highest administrative court in France revoked SpaceX's license to provide internet services in the country via its Starlink megaconstellation, citing mon

> The highest administrative court in France revoked SpaceX's license to provide internet services in the country via its Starlink megaconstellation, citing monopolization concerns due to the size and scale of the company's operations. I struggle to see the monopolization concerns. Starlink will never be relevant for urban areas where most people live since the bandwidth provisioned is per area not per dwelling. 80% of the US population live in urban areas (just 2% of the land.) Even with infinite satellites eventually radio spectrum becomes the limiting factor. While you can have many low power cell stations in cities, satellites are far away and antennas not perfectly directional. It's a long time since high school trig but with Starlink's narrow beam width of 1.3 degrees and satellites 550km up that's 12.5km diameter. So would be like everyone in SF sharing the bandwidth of a single cell tower.