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Re:FCC cancels Starlink’s and LTD's rural development grants by bushbaba on Thursday August 11, 2022 @03:36AM (#32422632)
Cheaper, in some situations. E.g. starlink would be horrendously expensive to provide service to everyone in downtown SF.

But yes. For rural less dense deployments. Long range signal through the air is much cheaper.

Re:FCC cancels Starlink’s and LTD's rural development grants by thereddaikon on Thursday August 11, 2022 @08:38AM (#32424757)
Cell towers already provide internet to everyone in downtown SF and have for 20 years. Just because you aren't using your PC with it normally doesn't mean it doesn't count.

Wireless is always cheaper than wired for an equivalent coverage area. It just requires less physical infrastructure. But in almost every other way it has inferior performance.

Re:FCC cancels Starlink’s and LTD's rural development grants by hef19898 on Thursday August 11, 2022 @05:49AM (#32423492)
Agreed, problem is with everything SpaceX hard numbers are hard to come buy. So wireless will be cheaper, if satelites are cheaper than 5g and other groind based solutuons is hard to tell.