SpaceX Starlink average speedtest is 42.3Mbps down / 9.7 Mbps up

Re:SpaceX Starlink average speedtest is 42.3Mbps down / 9.7 ... by dwild on Thursday August 27, 2020 @04:10PM (#24298095)

Your comment kind of make me sad... this is such a big issue of perspective. It's something that I often see coming from the US, but any first world country often has that issue, we forget that there's more than us in the world.

> In 2019, Internet access became available to 51 percent of the world's population. When households are taken into account, the index increases, reaching 57.8 percent.

42% of the world don't have internet. We aren't talking about not having competitive internet, literally, no internet at all.

At the bare minimum, you forgot about 42% of the world... that kind of sad.

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Re:SpaceX Starlink average speedtest is 42.3Mbps down / 9.7 ... by gamblor956 on Sunday August 30, 2020 @01:23PM (#24324276)

The 42% of the world that doesn't currently have internet won't be able to afford Starlink anyway, and unless Elon has discovered a way to make satellites 99% cheaper, Starlink will never be the solution for them.

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