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by yoz-y 1600 days ago
There is no way that getting a satellite connection inside a city is cheaper or more practical than a physical line though. It will be necessarily slower, have worse latency and be more expensive.
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I didn't say it was? I just used cities (major population centers) to determine what coverage was like (bad) and how much of the country had access (almost none).
My reaction was with regards to the parent’s question, sorry if it came out as flippant.

If those are indeed the planned locations for expansion then it’s even worse for Starlink because nobody over there needs it.