> jump technology generations

Satellite internet is not a “generation above” fibre internet

Once the birds are in orbit, satellite internet is vastly superior to fiber in speed of deployment.

Fiber requires custom engineering at the city block level and a single rotten utility pole can block deployment.

I say this as someone who waited for fiber and is happily using it now.

	▲	uxhacker 4 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		So in Poland with Starlink I easily get 120 mbp/s but often in Kenya which I visit the maximum speed is just 10 mbp/s. Often the local 5g network is faster. The reason I believe that this is the case is dues to congestion on the Starlink network in Kenya. Ie. too many users in Kenya.

willy_k 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Nor did they claim that.

> When you don’t have an established wired infrastructure, it becomes significantly easier to jump technology generations

> As others mentioned, It's a very similar situation for rural American

That’s a seperate anecdote about his dad in America.

If you’re going to nitpick irrelevant inconsistencies, at least be right.

	▲	dools an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Et tu dufus