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Starlink is generally seen as more beneficial in harder-to-serve areas because of its capacity limits, but Starlink and the Trump administration want satellite
by Terretta 1y ago
Starlink is generally seen as more beneficial in harder-to-serve areas because of its capacity limits, but Starlink and the Trump administration want satellite technology to be treated the same as fiber when it comes to giving out grants.
"more"? The rest of the sentence makes more sense with the word "less". From later in the article:
"project areas span from mountains and hills to farmland and coastal plains... tree canopy, rugged terrain, and slope can complicate installation and/or obstruct line-of-sight" [meaning] low-Earth orbit satellite technology "can have signal degradation, increased latency, and reduced reliability".
Meanwhile, Virginia said its plan will allocate $613.3 million to serve 133,472 locations, including:
- SpaceX's Starlink: $3.26 million for 5,579 locations
- Amazon's Kuiper: $4.46 million for 6,957 locations
- All Points Broadband: $171.4 million for 19,801 locations
- Comcast: $146.4 million for 24,343 locations
- cman1444 1y agoMore beneficial in rural areas than in urban areas because of the capacity limits. Not more beneficial in urban areas than alternative providers.
- Terretta 1y agoTY, I puzzled a while. So "less challenged by its capacity limits when used in rural areas" and I can now read the original that way but it's still a weird phrasing.