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> It might be easy to say for someone living in a city, but I assume all relevant areas today have somehow internet coverage. I know people in rural areas who
by JoshTriplett 3y ago
> It might be easy to say for someone living in a city, but I assume all relevant areas today have somehow internet coverage.
I know people in rural areas who can't even get DSL. And even within a city, having Starlink available sometimes makes the difference between someone having one possible ISP (often something horrible like Comcast) and having two.
Also, see other comments here: this is already being addressed, folks are working with SpaceX on better EMI shielding.
- rjbwork 3y agoI just got back from St. Croix - the largest, remotest, and poorest of the Virgin Islands. I had far better internet there than I do ~35 miles outside of Atlanta. Infrastructure in this country is ridiculous sometimes. Comcast told us it would cost 75000 dollars for them to run a line to our street, so us and our neighbors just have to make due without. We have to use T-Mobile right now.