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But it doesn't necessarily need high subscriber rates in any one place to make lots of money. If you just focus on those high population areas, 1.7 billion people live in cities. If you can sell to a few in a thousand then you will have several million subscribers across the world and they will likely be wealthier people. And then there are cruise ships, airliners, oil rigs, ski chalets, military compounds, backhauling WiFi for musical festivals, and millions of people living in the woods with rubbish DSL.

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Furthermore, a lot of people seem to think the world is divided into Manhattans and log cabins in the woods someplace. In fact, a huge number in the US and presumably elsewhere live nearby small cities etc., have electricity and maybe other utilities, but don't have what most people would consider decent Internet access.

[db48x]

Yea, there are hundreds of thousands of tiny tiny towns all across the US with terrible internet service. You could run a perfectly good ISP for a village of a few hundred people off of one Starlink dish.