SpaceX has 100,000 customers for Starlink Internet – IT Pro – News

That’s right, so that there is certainly no competition on the American market, where many live in remote areas and just achieve ADSL speeds, and so that everyone who lives in remote areas (which does occur outside the densely populated Netherlands/Belgium) can go for alternative (worse) solutions. Search? So that after earthquakes one has to make an effort again and again via expensive, slow satellite connections to reconnect with the outside world, instead of simply connecting a commercial receiver to a generator and having broadband internet?

A global product has global use cases, it’s not like they launch those satellites just for your village. Research has been done for years into techniques (hot air balloons, drones, …) for internet in remote and/or inhospitable areas, or in areas where cables are not everywhere in the ground. Those areas do exist, and I don’t see why you should be entitled to broadband and people in those areas aren’t.

[Reactie gewijzigd door bertware op 24 augustus 2021 12:08]

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