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> My point is simply that anyone expecting Starlink will treat you better than AT&T does The situations are totally different. AT&T made money from LOCAL infra
by panick21_ 4y ago
> My point is simply that anyone expecting Starlink will treat you better than AT&T does
The situations are totally different. AT&T made money from LOCAL infrastructure that they had a natural and enforced monopoly on.
Starlink infrastructure is inherently global, their main goal is with minimal effort and cost to connect as my people as possible to distribute the global fixed cost. SpaceX has little intensive to involve itself as deeply in local politics. On a global scale some politics will go in their direction, others away, spending lots of money in each government is not really a very practical strategy.
The US government can force companies to do things sure, and if you have extreme security consideration that goes beyond having a VPN go threw Starlink then Starlink is not for you.
Starlink will not have a monopoly on anything, they have an essentially global outlook and they are trying to offer a uniform standard service from Stockholm to Santiago. So I do actually think its a fair assumption that costumer experience has a chance to be better.
> Tesla just laid off its whole self-driving department
You realize that is totally wrong right?
- ncmncm 4y agoIf you really think AT&T's profits are from their landline dial tone service, I don't know what to say. > Starlink will not have a monopoly on anything Numerous people have posted right here, contradicting you. Maybe read them?
- panick21_ 4y ago> Numerous people have posted right here, contradicting you. Maybe read them? They are wrong. Its simply factually wrong. Starlink will coexist with many global LEO constellations, many are already in planning.
- ncmncm 4y agoThose other constellations do not, in fact, exist. Until they do, for most rural subscribers Starlink is the only game in town: a de facto monopoly even by strict legal definition, whether or not so governed administratively yet.