Starlink internet is going from rural savior to unreliable luxury

Re:Starlink internet is going from rural savior to unreliabl... by happytiger on Monday April 03, 2023 @06:27AM (#35421152)

Au is only slightly smaller than the USA with 25.7 million people vs just California’s 39.24 and the Netherlands have 17.53 million — but bear in mind Australia is 186 times the size of the NDs. So it’s not surprising service is so good — the density of population makes broadband extremely profitable.

People forget. The numbers tell a really great story.

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Re:Starlink internet is going from rural savior to unreliabl... by 411111111111111 on Monday April 03, 2023 @07:01AM (#35421485)

The population density is a correlated number, but it's not necessarily an issue, which makes this into one of my pet peeves.

You could have a gigantic nation which is completely centralized into one city, giving you a super low population density on paper.

It's not the case in any of your example, so not really an issue here. Nonetheless...

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Re:Starlink internet is going from rural savior to unreliabl... by ghaff on Monday April 03, 2023 @10:42AM (#35424424)

For that matter, Australia as a whole--like some other low density areas like Alaska--actually has fairly concentrated population centers.

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Re:Starlink internet is going from rural savior to unreliabl... by happytiger on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @10:35PM (#35448591)

Yes, absolutely true. I think there’s something like 8M people just in NSW and the majority are Sydney.

Only trying to provide context for the economics of density in places like Singapore and the a Netherlands, not necessarily prove the opposite use case. I just wanted to highlight a contrasting factor that is very important for fiber and other high speed service viability. There are many others!

These criticisms are totally valid.

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