The use case varies but for what it’s worth, most major cellular provider in the US offer fallback Internet plans. Ranges from 10-20 a month depending if you already have a line with them. AT&T has an interesting one where your phone lines hotspot is free and unthrottled whenever your fiber is impacted.

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mholt 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Yeah but if you need Internet failover, cell phone towers are likely flooded. Starlink will be much more available (probably).

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baby_souffle 3 hours ago | parent [-]

This too depends on which POP/ground station you're landing at.

Maybe less so once the majority of starling satellites are capable of laser communications to route your traffic down to a less saturated ground station.

	▲	rlt 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The vast majority of Starlink satellites do have laser interconnect now. They started launching them in 2021 or 2022 I believe.