That might be dispositive if we didn't already have almost everybody on Earth wired up without using satellites.

asdfasgasdgasdg 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The fact that so many people are paying for starlink suggests that it is adding something important that was missing before.

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fluidcruft 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Streaming video on airplane flights?

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db48x an hour ago | parent [-]

Most of Starlink’s customers are simply rural people who want Internet access at decent speeds. There are wide swathes of the US where Starlink’s best competition is measured in kilobytes per second.

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defrost an hour ago | parent [-]

Seems like a case for the US having better fibre deployment than it does for leaking interference from unshielded poorly made tin cans.

	▲	gordonhart 39 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		~80% of Starlink customers are not in the US.

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sippingabonedry an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Got a source for that?

Because there's entire continents of people who think it's the most ridiculous statement they've ever read on this site (which they can only access because of Starlink).