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I think the problem with fiber in general is not availability, but deployment cost. You need to dig and bury the fiber. That's expensive.
by salviati 2y ago
I think the problem with fiber in general is not availability, but deployment cost. You need to dig and bury the fiber. That's expensive.
- gsich 2y agoYou could mount it on poles.
- arghwhat 2y agoFor remote areas that might still be tens to hundreds of kilometers of poles and fiber just to add coverage to one remote area. Then you move on to the next. No one wants to do that across all of Alaska or the Australian outback.
- aaomidi 2y agoWe have cellular issues in upstate NY that has plenty of infrastructure. Dark fiber is also practically everywhere
- arghwhat 2y agoSure, but there's also cellular issues in the Australian outback and most of Alaska, and there you don't have infrastructure. You need power as well as fiber.
- ryao 2y agoThe deployment cost is even lower when you don’t need to put a tower on the ground, which is the point of this. They can cover the entire U.S. to eliminate coverage gaps using the starlink satellites.