Re:Starlink's current problem is capacity
by PaulHoule on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @10:42AM
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People hate the cable company. There are a lot of rich people in cities who would love to burn dollar bills to spite the cable company, they compete with people in a radius of 300 miles or so for bandwidth.
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Re:Starlink's current problem is capacity
by oceanplexian on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @11:45AM
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I have one and itβs both a middle finger to the cable company and supporting the development of Starship.
Even without Starlink, you could have convinced me to donate $100 a month . The fact that my donation comes with a pretty amazing piece of tech is a bonus.
You are already donating via federal subsidies. They absolutely do not need your money.
Yes. I have access to Comcast cable, but I happily pay >2x for much slower local-ISP microwave service.
AT&T terminates fiber 1/10 mi from my house, built out under the $0.5B federal broadband subsidy many years back. But FCC did not require them to light it, so AT&T never bothered.
Who is worse, Comcast or AT&T? Each is worse than the other.