Starlink WiFi Router FCC Approved

Re:Starlink WiFi Router FCC Approved by Dylan16807 on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @11:42PM (#23841046)

Did you forget the part where you said "several billion other people"?

If you're not talking about the developing world, and just look at the rural and those who don't want a connection, that's not nearly enough people. So it's not wrong at all for people to assume you meant the developing world.

And nobody said they were 'life essentials'.

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Re:Starlink WiFi Router FCC Approved by culturestate on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @02:48AM (#23842084)

To be fair to the other person, China alone (in which neither Netflix nor YouTube are widely available) is almost 1.4 billion people. That could easily be part of their calculus, though I guess you could argue over the meaning of “several” in this context.

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Re:Starlink WiFi Router FCC Approved by Dylan16807 on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @03:37AM (#23842335)

I see that as pedantry. We're talking about internet speeds, and the equivalent of youtube.

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Re:Starlink WiFi Router FCC Approved by culturestate on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @03:49AM (#23842411)

> We're talking about...the equivalent of youtube.

Well, you certainly are, but I don't think the person who originally brought it up was.

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