[awaaz]

Curious to see how this plays out in a country like mine (India) where the government loves [1] to shut off Internet access on the flimsiest of excuses. Everything from entire states (like Kashmir), to few localities (farmer protests around Delhi) have had their mobile Internet access switched off because the government likes to curtail communication when it suits them.

[1] https://www.indiatoday.in/diu/story/more-than-400-internet-l...

[shellfishgene]

Currently the traffic runs through a local base station, so it's not really an different from other ISPs when it comes to government control?

[gamekathu]

Curious about this as well. The portal shows target delivery by 2022 when I apply to pre-order for an address in Kolkata. They will probably have to revisit the pricing model based on the local economy. But yeah, I'm worried whether the current govt will even allow such devices to be imported given they want a tighter control over the internet.

On the other hand, I believe this kind of connectivity will be extremely beneficial for cities such as Kolkata which suffer due to lack of proper infrastructure (and of course, lack of political will). I would love to see a future when I can move back to Kolkata and work with the same latency to servers in NorAM.

[sien]

Great point.

It'll be interesting to see what China does.

[josefx]

Musk has quite a bit of money invested in China, so it will be more interesting what he does when China wants to integrate Starlink into the great firewall.

[noisy_boy]

Probably will ban its usage in the name of national security.

[sn41]

It is sad how 2021 looks in comparison to 2000. The future looked a lot better then. I hope no one writes a "Vision 2030" pamphlet.

[Chris2048]

Could citizens set up local WANs that host local chat servers, and caches?