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> Although as a customer i'd love to just use Starlink and pay less for better quality of service The radio spectrum is far more limited, so the more people us
by gopalv 2y ago
> Although as a customer i'd love to just use Starlink and pay less for better quality of service
The radio spectrum is far more limited, so the more people use it, the slower it should get.
> If these companies shutdown because of international competition, it's money going to the US
The ideal "free market" result of this is that the ISP lowers prices in response or improves the service, in a rational competitive market.
The question is about customer density - the ISPs + fiber works great with density in miles while Starlink works better with lower density.
So hopefully the cities get better wired and villages get better wireless at the same time.
- bmicraft 2y agoThe "traditional" free market approach is that starlink gets a monopoly there, while new providers go out of business before they reach the scale to compete. Meanwhile the talent pool with the knowledge to even install local infrastructure in the first place is shrinking.
- ok_dad 2y ago> The radio spectrum is far more limited, so the more people use it, the slower it should get. As radio hardware gets better able to distinguish frequencies, this won’t be an issue. There’s a lot of bandwidth out there once radios can tune into a band so narrow it needs several decimals to delineate.
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