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Re:Saint Helena Island Communications by oh_sigh on Monday September 25, 2023 @01:39PM (#37647680)
Does a monopoly make sense here? Pre starlink, there was probably a huge cost to bring internet to the island, and those doing so wanted to have some form of protection in order to confidently invest the capital to do so.
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Re:Saint Helena Island Communications by lxgr on Monday September 25, 2023 @01:49PM (#37647836)
Yeah, I could totally imagine some long-term bandwidth lease funding the launch of a geostationary satellite.

But enforcing that monopoly against private users, i.e. not resellers/ISPs, seems somewhat extreme.

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