Comment on Starlink loses out on $886 million in rural broadband subsidies

• 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.

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  • 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.

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    • 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.

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