Having just visited a few National Parks there were many cell towers with modern LTE cell radios connected to an old and badly under-provisioned microwave link.

Having just visited a few National Parks there were many cell towers with modern LTE cell radios connected to an old and badly under-provisioned microwave link. In busy parks like Yellowstone the cell service was effectively unusable. The background traffic from the phones in people's pockets (checking email, checking for updates, downloading map tiles or getting directions, etc...) was enough to bring the entire system to its knees. I was thinking that they were way overdue to replace those microwave dishes with a Starlink terminal.