[stirlo]

Those stations in Chile are going to revolutionise comms down there.

I trekked to El Chalten in 2019 and the entire town was connected with a ~150mb microwave link. With thousands of tourists in town it had slowed to a crawl. Starlink won’t do much in cities but for regional areas it will open massive opportunities particularly in tourism with today’s instagramming travellers.

[aeyes]

El Chalten is in Argentina and its a completely different story over there.

Chile has fiber all the way to the very south and is in the process of further expanding this network to all relevant cities in the south until the end of next year.

https://foa.subtel.gob.cl/mapa-de-proyecto-foa/

[stirlo]

I am well aware El Chalten is in Argentina, hopefully there's not a requirement to have a national base station to serve a particular country. The Patagonian location should be able to cover both Argentina and Chile effectively.

Interesting to see Chile's new Fibre network taking shape. I guess it was a factor in the placement decision for these base stations though I imagine they were also located in Chile for the higher wealth and economic stability compared to Argentina.

[dwarfsandstuff]

Well, there's no ground station in Portugal but starlink already announced availability of the service in Portugal.

Unrelated: how should one go about to become a certified starlink installer, anyone knows?

[manquer]

Europe might be considered the same geography regulations wise.

Strict regimes would want connections termination locally so they can monitor and implement content blocks/censorships etc. It would not be possible if the ground stations where not in the geographical control.

[manquer]

Depends actually,some countries want to monitor their inbound/outbound traffic so it might be restricted in that way in geographies requiring this, they can hardly add monitoring equipment in another country after all.