Unlike fiber and cable, starlink does not benefit having a bunch of customers located in one spot. Bandwidth is limited and adding more requires either newer sa

Unlike fiber and cable, starlink does not benefit having a bunch of customers located in one spot. Bandwidth is limited and adding more requires either newer satellites with higher bandwidth backbone or more overlap on satellite coverage. The fee is to discourage people from being completely mobile with the ground station. Additionally, there's little competition for starlink because it's such a new tech. There are a bunch of companies working on similar tech that will launch in the next few years. Mobile satellite internet has been pretty shitty in the past with major companies like Inmarsat, Iridium, and Hughes that can only provide slow, expensive links. The best service from Iridium is only good for 700kbps.