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Re:Starlink is now Accepting General Pre-orders by disiplus on Thursday February 18, 2021 @03:28AM (#26177379)
I's 50%, i would not call that "not a thing in many countries" For mobile, it does not usually matter, you have a smartphone, where you would not host something.
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Re:Starlink is now Accepting General Pre-orders by walrus01 on Thursday February 18, 2021 @04:18AM (#26177692)
For a huge percentage of the developing world the only internet connection people have is a smartphone, and dedicated residential internet at a fixed address is only for the upper middle class and the wealthy.
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Re:Starlink is now Accepting General Pre-orders by fulafel on Thursday February 18, 2021 @01:51PM (#26183903)
It matters for smartphones too (think video calls, IoT applications, and home/office networks that have mobile network as uplink) but fortunately IPv6 is common there.
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