[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.