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by sunshinekitty 549 days ago
Except the satellites are already up and functioning, the service is available today. We will look crazy for burying thousands of miles of wires to residential in the future.
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You can't add 10 million more subscribers and maintain broadband speeds without massively increasing the number of satellites.
Except we won't, because the satellites are wildly over congested and wires are, frankly, far more reliable.