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

• Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I don’t think you quite understand just how remote some people are. Besides, Starlink is also being used on vessels and aircraft, good luck getting copper out to them.

  Also, fibre optic is how the cool people Internet these days.

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  • echo64@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I don’t think you understand that a lot of copper is still less than infinite rockets forever

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    • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      This is the kind of dumb statement that really gives this platform a bad name. I know people who were quoted a six figure sum to get mains power to their property, fibre would have been a similar cost. And this is people who are at a fixed location, we also have those who are mobile to consider.

      There are people for whom a wired connection to anything is out of the question.

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      • echo64@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        If only someone like a government would subsidise the installation just like the subsidised starlink because that also isn’t profitable. But a lot of money today is cheaper than an infinite amount of money from launching infinite rockets forever.

        How do you think everything got built thus far?

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    • Lmaydev@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Still doesn’t help ahips

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      • echo64@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Ships don’t need infinite rockets full of infinite cell towers launched forever.

        Maybe when we have fusion power and don’t have to waste the resources. We don’t. We have to choose what we want to use. I say that launching infinite rockets with infinite cell towers forever is not worth being able to watch tiktok in the middle of the Atlantic.

        There’s always actual satellite internet for the needed communications.

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      • alsimoneau@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The issue with starlink is the choice to be in LEO instead of using geosats. It lowers the latency but it makes the whole project completely unsustainable.

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    • mosiacmango@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      A lot of glass is much better than a lot of copper.

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• GBU_28@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This makes zero sense. If that was profitable it would have been done already.

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  • echo64@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s not, neither is starlink. That’s the whole point. You have two things, you can either launch infinite rockets forever or lay some infrastructure that we can benefit from forever.

    Why America chooses not to lay infrastructure is beyond me. More so why Americans justify it so often. This shit is why America doesn’t have trains.

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    • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The fact that you’re talk about laying copper for Internet access shows just how little you know.

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      • echo64@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I use it because it makes people mad and I think that’s funny, obviously fibre is better. Good for digestion

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    • crazyCat@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Preach the truth brother. The single most effective way to spread more internet is more cable and towers.

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    • LilB0kChoy@midwest.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Bundle it all together! We have tons of electrical that should be moved underground. Throw internet lines into that pool too and put it all under the ground and run the network cables everywhere the power goes.

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