The first Starlink constellations didn't have inter-satellite links at all: https://wccftech.com/spacex-starlink-satellite-laser-test/ https://wccftech.com/spa

The first Starlink constellations didn't have inter-satellite links at all: https://wccftech.com/spacex-starlink-satellite-laser-test/ https://wccftech.com/spacex-starlink-satellite-laser-test/ Also, people in Europe don't want to have to take a round trip to space via America just to pull up IKEA's website hosted next door. That's a lot of pointless latency when you could bounce it down to a nearby ground station instead.