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Re:Starlink Successfully Tests Space Direct to Cell Mobile S... by lxgr on Saturday January 13, 2024 @04:51PM (#38984961)
Probably not, given that operating satellite communication services targeting a given country requires approval of the respective government.

And even ignoring that: I doubt that Elon has any appetite for his satellites being targeted by nation states that have publicly demonstrated [1] [2] their capability of taking them out.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Chinese_anti-satellite_mi...

[2] https://www.spacecom.mil/Newsroom/News/Article-Display/Artic...

Re:Starlink Successfully Tests Space Direct to Cell Mobile S... by jacquesm on Saturday January 13, 2024 @09:21PM (#38986797)
Taking out the number of sats that Starlink fields is hard, keep in mind that it will take an order of magnitude more launches to kill them off than it takes SpaceX to launch them in the first place. If you wanted to play that game long enough you'd be bankrupt, besides I'm fairly sure that other entities besides Starlink/SpaceX might have an opinion (or two) about doing that.