Starlink will now be free in Brazil since remote hospitals, schools use it: Musk

Re:Starlink will now be free in Brazil since remote hospital... by fitsumbelay on Friday August 30, 2024 @12:30AM (#41397731)

I'm curious why you'd call Brasil a country of middling importance. What countries in the Western Hemisphere other than US and Canada have larger economies, military and local impact? Having the Amazon rainforest within its borders alone probably makes it an extremely significant nation internationally.

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Re:Starlink will now be free in Brazil since remote hospital... by teractiveodular on Friday August 30, 2024 @12:39AM (#41397763)

The really important countries are known as superpowers for a reason, and "BRICS" pretentions aside, Brazil is not in that club, it can't project power outside its immediate neighborhood and doesn't really even try. Economically, it's in the same league as Mexico.

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Re:Starlink will now be free in Brazil since remote hospital... by fignews on Saturday August 31, 2024 @03:45AM (#41407186)

Mexico is the #1 trading partner with the US (even beating China) can Brazil really be compared?

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Re:Starlink will now be free in Brazil since remote hospital... by matheusmoreira on Monday September 02, 2024 @01:50PM (#41427409)

No, it cannot. India and Mexico are where the factories will likely migrate to in the post-Chinese manufacturing world. Brazil probably wasn't even considered.

It's kind of funny how Brazil always ends up named as part of the "BRIC" group. India put a spacecraft on the moon. Russia is, well, Russia. China is unquestionably a world power. Brazil is... The world's soy and cattle farm.

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Re:Starlink will now be free in Brazil since remote hospital... by mr_toad on Friday August 30, 2024 @01:54AM (#41398022)

After the US and China every country is middling, economically speaking. There’s a huge gap between China and the next largest country (Germany).

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Re:Starlink will now be free in Brazil since remote hospital... by bpodgursky on Friday August 30, 2024 @12:42AM (#41397777)

Brazil is fairly large in nominal terms but projects essentially no presence internationally, either diplomatically, economically, culturally, or militarily. It barely can even project influence within South America, despite being half the continent.

I'm not trying to diss the country, not every country could or should aspire to hegemony... but Brazil could sink into the Atlantic and I'd read about it in the NYTimes two weeks later.

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Re:Starlink will now be free in Brazil since remote hospital... by guax on Monday September 02, 2024 @11:56AM (#41426515)

And this folks, is why us Brazilians look up to the US so much. The respect, understanding and affection we receive is unparalleled.

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