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The whole point of Starlink is that it's economically unfeasible to reach everywhere. Specially in rural areas, neither cables, fiber optics or 5G will make it.
by frankreyes 4y ago
The whole point of Starlink is that it's economically unfeasible to reach everywhere. Specially in rural areas, neither cables, fiber optics or 5G will make it. Keep wasting money in Europe.
- TheLoafOfBread 4y agoIf there is a point to bring electricity into a village, then there is a point to bring there also a fiber.
- frankreyes 4y agoInfrastructure has to be self financed otherwise it's a waste of resources. That's why rural areas do not have internet. It fails every time
- TheLoafOfBread 4y agoBy this logic they should not have electricity and water pipes as well.
- frankreyes 4y agoYou're moving the goalposts. First came the cities and then came the public infrastructure. 200 years ago none of that infrastructure existed yet cities were already there. That's because there was a need for it, which was self financed. Then someone had the idea to reverse the cause effect relationship in a way to promote moving people to smaller towns and away from big cities. To the point of Italy selling houses for €1 to motivate people to move back from big cities. It doesn't work.
- doubleg72 4y agoThis is a rather stupid comment.. so all public utilities are failed, wasted resources?
- justeleblanc 4y agoI don't know where you live, but in most of Europe, rural areas have internet too. It doesn't "fail every time".
- sebzim4500 4y agoThere aren't really any rural areas in Europe, by American standards.
- uoaei 4y agoI think you should review the definition of "rural" then.
- edgyquant 4y agoNo he’s right and this is brought up here all the time. There are large swathes of America where people don’t have neighbors for miles (sometimes tens of miles) while there are comparatively few places in Europe that meet this definition.
- palata 4y agoI can't believe that Starlink is counting on those relatively few people to make money. There must be some other stream of revenue, right?
- sebzim4500 4y agoPresumably ships/airlines/us military are all a signicant potential revenue source. Only once they get the laser links working though.
- palata 4y agoRight. So it's not exactly about connecting those who are remote and need it... unless we consider that having access to TikTok on a ship is a fundamental need.
- scotty79 4y agoBarely any infrastructure is self financed, anywhere.
- frankreyes 4y agoIn Europe sure. That's why Energy is so expensive compared to the USA. But in general that's not true. In particular, public resources such as electricity and water are installed for a specific planned capacity... the limit of how much resources to install is how much we can pay it back. Public infrastructure is financed from taxes which is financed from jobs, this there's a cause effect relationship between infrastructure and productivity. That's the very meaning of self financed.
- doubleg72 4y ago[flagged]
- shkkmo 4y agoThere are all kinds of hurdles to running fiber. Even if you eliminated them, running power to remote properties is also expensive. If we had the ability to beam power from orbit to a relatively inexpensive dish, that would be even more revolutionary than StarLink. Your name calling is inappropriate, please keep your discourse more productive.