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Re:What do Starlink’s latest Ookla results mean for its RDOF... by ncmncm on Thursday June 30, 2022 @09:05PM (#31940832)
If you really think AT&T's profits are from their landline dial tone service, I don't know what to say.

> Starlink will not have a monopoly on anything

Numerous people have posted right here, contradicting you. Maybe read them?

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Re:What do Starlink’s latest Ookla results mean for its RDOF... by panick21_ on Friday July 01, 2022 @02:14PM (#31950458)
> Numerous people have posted right here, contradicting you. Maybe read them?

They are wrong. Its simply factually wrong. Starlink will coexist with many global LEO constellations, many are already in planning.

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Re:What do Starlink’s latest Ookla results mean for its RDOF... by ncmncm on Friday July 01, 2022 @05:02PM (#31952869)
Those other constellations do not, in fact, exist. Until they do, for most rural subscribers Starlink is the only game in town: a de facto monopoly even by strict legal definition, whether or not so governed administratively yet.
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