Elon Musk Is Charging Starlink Customers Gigantic Bogus Fees Because Its Network Is Being Crushed by “High Demand”

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• Zedstrian@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  If they can get people to pay $1,500 fees for access, surely that money would be better directed towards installing fiber in these rural areas to circumvent the need for highly expensive satellite infrastructure?

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  • warm@kbin.earth ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    For the cost of these satellites, we could have full connectivity across the world with land based infrastructure, which would last longer and be easier and cheaper to maintain. LEO internet should have been made illegal the moment it was conceived.

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  • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Unfortunately running cable is insanely expensive. $60k per mile to trench.

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    • Peppycito@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      What till you hear about the rocket equation!

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    • EpicFailGuy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      we have had a solution to this for ages … I’ve lived in rural places without fiber where there is a Microwave repeater at the distribution point and you setup a dish in your house to receive it.

      I was a good 2 - 3 miles away from the uplink and I still got gigabit speeds. It was very sensitive to weather … but it beats not having broadband at all.

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  • Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    why would a billionaire or the politicians they pay for be concerned with what’s best for everyone?

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• Hirom@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Don’t hold you breath, there’s little chance of USA’s regulators going after the oligarch’s company.

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