[robscallsign]

Is this really reasible to scale for a company without their own launch platform though?

As a Canadian living in a "rural" area, 15km from a municipality of 160,000 people with no access to wired broadband internet, I'd rather see whatever funding gets thrown at this startup into actually developing Canadian terrestrial infrastructure.

As a rant, in the 8 years since living here, I've seen cellular data prices double. Yes, double.

[michael1999]

What infrastructure would you like to see? Running high bandwidth cable in rural areas is expensive.

[robscallsign]

Yes, I won't disagree that running cable or fiber is expensive, but I'd like to see a push to run cable or fiber to places like ours which are on a major highway, and only a few kilometers out of town. Somehow in these discussions running a few kilometers of infrastructure to outlying areas around major cities gets painted with the same brush as running thousands of kilometers of cable to hit every outpost in Nunavut.

The next would be more cellular towers with realistic data plans to service rural data. As an example these Telus plans are fairly representative of what's available. $90 for 20GB, $135 for 50GB. https://www.telus.com/en/mobility/mobile-internet?linktype=g...

[DwnVoteHoneyPot]

So you're OK if it's run a few kilometers to your place, but you don't have a solution for Nunavut?

Alternatively they can spend the limited funds to address the market that includes you and Nunavut and elsewhere around the world since it needs to orbit.

[robscallsign]

Running some "last mile" type infrastructure would help hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people in Canada who live close to cities.

> Limited funds

Using the term "Limited funds" here you're trivializing the costs and challenges with starting up a Starlink competitor.

[michael1999]

Who should pay for it, if not you? And if a tax subsidy for you, why not all?