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Re:Starlink Beta Has Outperformed Most Internet in the US by agildehaus on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @06:45AM (#24978729)
148,729 mi² vs 3.797 million mi²
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Re:Starlink Beta Has Outperformed Most Internet in the US by bryanlarsen on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @07:08AM (#24978878)
15 people per square kilometer (Norway) vs 34 people per square kilometer (continental us).
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Re:Starlink Beta Has Outperformed Most Internet in the US by MagnumOpus on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @11:50AM (#24981322)
With corresponding higher amount of people to do the cabling. (Which is still irrelevant, nobody complains about the lack of gigabit ISPs in the Rockies or the Wyoming countryside, they complain that you can't get it in coastal or midwestern suburbia where the vast majority of Americans live.
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