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Sadly I blame everyone but starlink. It provides internet to rural areas that otherwise donβt have any viable high speed internet. Feds and states should have done anything to make sure these areas were being served. They werenβt and as a result $120/mo internet is reasonable.
You speak about the US but it fucked the sky up for the entire planet, for all of us.
That's the main issue I see here, too. If you can provide this without the side effect, per-country, sure. Go ahead. Cool service.
They never mentioned the US. Starlink serves the entire globe. Right above your comment is someone in the UK that uses Starlink.
Rural UK here. Tiny country in comparison to the US. Our village has no mobile signal. Our landline internet maxes out at 1mbit up and 10mbit down. We are 3miles from a town with 15k people. Why is there no infrastructure? Iβm completely dependent on Starlink.
This is such a shitty take.
He's kinda right though...
Remember when the US govt. provided incentives for major ISPs to upgrade\expand their service and they just kinda pocketed the money and did nothing? Imagine if they didn't. We may not have had a need for starlink.
Imagine 7.700.000.000 people not living in the US
Starlink has customers in 99 countries as of March. It's a global service.
well maybe your right, maybe slowing down research and impeding the scientific progress of the human race is a small price to pay for getting Grandma in Bumfuck, Montana onto Facebook, and maybe these so called scientists should stop poking around the universe anyway, right ?
Isn't Starlink a major player in getting high speed Internet to developing nations? I'm as mad as you about ruining the sky, but it's not just Grandma it's also entire villages in the global south.