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by mholt 88 days ago
Yeah but if you need Internet failover, cell phone towers are likely flooded. Starlink will be much more available (probably).
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Or they’re just offline, because their backup batteries only last a few hours, and the gensets for the backhaul have run out of diesel. Iberian blackout last year, I didn’t even know it had happened until I went to pick the kid up from school - just another day at the home office.
This too depends on which POP/ground station you're landing at.

Maybe less so once the majority of starling satellites are capable of laser communications to route your traffic down to a less saturated ground station.

The vast majority of Starlink satellites do have laser interconnect now. They started launching them in 2021 or 2022 I believe.