Comment on Starlink loses out on $886 million in rural broadband subsidies
Bo7a@lemmy.ca 9 months agoBut 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?
Bo7a@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
That starlink solves the remaining piece of missing infra that a normal person needs, regardless of the choice to live in a city or not. Even if the CEO is a blight on our species.
Oderus@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Starlink only has a business as long as other ISP’s do nothing for rural homes.
Once they do, and they will, Starlink is dead.
Bo7a@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
I will cherish that day!
It will probably happen if this capitalist wet-dream mellows a bit and government is incentivized to provide their own internet infra regardless of profit. But I am 45 and will probably be long decomposed by then.
But in the near-term - I can’t see any land-based ISP covering where I live.
The cost to run 15km of lines to town, when even power poles don’t exist, just to service me and the one other nutter who decided to live up here would be prohibitive even for govt funded public internet.