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Re:Sixteen U.S. states still ban community-owned broadband n... by paxys on Thursday November 07, 2024 @10:09AM (#42077292)
It takes 5 minutes of back of the envelope calculations to realize that this is a pipe dream. Starlink isn't a substitute for fiber internet, it's a substitute for no internet.
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Re:Sixteen U.S. states still ban community-owned broadband n... by bombcar on Thursday November 07, 2024 @11:13AM (#42077940)
The missing piece is "buckets of Internet" where you pay a provider to have a connection, and they deal with whether it comes over 5G or fiber or Starlink or whatever. Nobody cares about HOW the connection is delivered, just the speed, latency, and reliability.
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