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by mbreese 573 days ago
My thinking is that you can think of Starlink satellites as LTE towers that just happen to be ~350 miles away from your phone. It happens to work because while they are far away, the satellites have a very clear line of sight (directly down) with few (no) obstacles.

The complication is that the base stations will be moving much more rapidly than traditional terrestrial towers.