If ISPs weren’t greedy bastards that don’t care the slightest about their users and gave everyone fiber then yeah, it’s wasteful. Sadly, for a lot of people in rural and inaccessible areas and on sea, it’s the only way to access internet.
Comment on Starlink loses out on $886 million in rural broadband subsidies
Scrof@sopuli.xyz 9 months agoIt’s probably the most wasteful way of providing internet imaginable since they have to send satellites up by the dozen every year for them to burn in the atmosphere only several years lates.
Diabolo96@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Yet many towns where I live saw broadband, yes, broadband, not fiber, for the first time in their life thanks to Starlink. It’s easy to talk when coming from a place of privilege.
Bo7a@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
I would not be able to live where I am without starlink. There isn’t even cell signal for 14 km…
MotoAsh@lemmy.world 9 months ago
That is NOT a win of starlink but a failure of regular infrastructure. Companies were paid BILLIONS years ago to expand broadband and they didn’t, and faced zero repercussions because politicians and executives work for the same team.
drkt@feddit.dk 9 months ago
Demand more of your local government instead of pulling the privilege card.
netburnr@lemmy.world 9 months ago
The government keeps giving money to traditionally ISPs to expand broadband and they simply lie and say they did to take the money. It’s private industry fucking us just as much.
drkt@feddit.dk 9 months ago
I’m not disagreeing, but who can stand up against corporate bullying? The government. Make the government do it. The corporate world gets away with it because the politicians turn a blind eye because they’re not held accountable because not enough people stand together. People have bled for the rights that “privileged” people have, it didn’t come free.
Oderus@lemmy.world 9 months ago
It’s it really a privilege to live in a city? Sounds more like a choice than privilege. Your choice has consequences and the further you live from the other people, the more problems you’ll have with certain infrastructure like water, power, internet.
Bo7a@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
But I can build my own power and water infra. And I have. I can’t build my own connection to the internet, which I need to have in order to make money to do the rest of what it takes to live.
Oderus@lemmy.world 9 months ago
What’s your point?