[Blinks-]

"SpaceX has also proposed an additional 7,500 satellites operating even closer to the ground, saying that this will boost capacity and reduce latency in heavily populated areas."

This should be interesting, depending on how this is regulated on the legal side it could result in the major ISP's updating our infrastructure, of course nothing has stopped them from agreeing to update infrastructure then running off with our tax money in the past. Not to mention they will probably use legal means to hamstring this if possible. Hopefully this spurs competition in areas with stagnating ISP's and increases availability of low latency connections in sparsely populated areas.

[pavel_lishin]

> Not to mention they will probably use legal means to hamstring this if possible.

I wonder how this could work. It's not like, e.g., Milwaukee has any legal oversight over LEO.

[extrapickles]

One possibility is passing laws/regulations about how many sats can be in a orbital plane or single launch, as they will want to launch dozens, if not the full 53 they want to put in a plane, with a single booster to reduce costs.

They could also get some silly RF regulations passed that make it not feasible economically.

[kuschku]

Then the operator of the constellation would just shift to using Arianespace as launch provider (which is equally expensive at the moment).

[mxvzr]

Couldn't a municipality/HOA/whatever put in place restrictions on what kind of satellite dishes you may setup on your property?