The cost of internet infrastructure in low density areas makes it difficult to bring reliable high speed to those areas.
It is complete bullshit. I'm living in low density rural area, literally in the forest and 1G fiber to my house cost me something like ~$500 at the time for 6km of fiber to closest muff. Starlink terminal costs nearly the same.
My monthly fee is ~$15.
Fiber is dirt cheap, if you have electricity in your house, you have poles to hang that fiber. That's all. If some monopoly tells you that it is very complex and expensive to lay a fiber to your rural house - they are lying.
Starlink could have single advantage - if they rise their intersatellite connections, then delay between distant part of the world could be lower than over the ground, because path will be shorter and there will be less hops between distant points. Hi frequency traders will pay a lot for such opportunity.
Starlink also highly weather dependent. Snow or rain lower the rate.
May be it is useable for ships and planes or for really very distant points, thousands miles from any civilization, but I'm in doubt that this will be profitable.
It is complete bullshit. I'm living in low density rural area, literally in the forest and 1G fiber to my house cost me something like ~$500 at the time for 6km of fiber to closest muff. Starlink terminal costs nearly the same.
My monthly fee is ~$15.
Fiber is dirt cheap, if you have electricity in your house, you have poles to hang that fiber. That's all. If some monopoly tells you that it is very complex and expensive to lay a fiber to your rural house - they are lying.
Starlink could have single advantage - if they rise their intersatellite connections, then delay between distant part of the world could be lower than over the ground, because path will be shorter and there will be less hops between distant points. Hi frequency traders will pay a lot for such opportunity.
Starlink also highly weather dependent. Snow or rain lower the rate.
May be it is useable for ships and planes or for really very distant points, thousands miles from any civilization, but I'm in doubt that this will be profitable.