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by r3trohack3r 41 days ago
Starlink shattered this monopoly in my area.
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> Starlink shattered this monopoly in my area.

The parent was noting that most of the US lives in a region, that is under a monopoly of wireline ISP (DOCSIS, FTTH). Starlink can't shatter a wireline monopoly because it is OTA.

I fired my DOCSIS provider for starlink. For many consumers the service is fungible.
A single extra provider does not mean a monopoly is "broken". Especially if they aren't even competing in the same niches