Comment Re:Typical billionaire idea. (Score 3, Informative) 89
Sure, StarLink is a business venture to support SpaceX activities. I'll grant you that. But I'm a StarLink customer, and a happy one at that. I came from a legacy satellite internet service that offered 10Mbit down, 100GB soft cap, and latency around 750ms. I now get 200Mbit down (and sometimes close to 300), no cap, and 75ms latency. A WISP put up a tower two months after we set up our StarLink system, and still does not offer the performance that StarLink does in our area but it happy to charge the same price. (100Mbit for $139Cdn)
Do not discount what StarLink is bringing to rural areas just because "it's not fibre". StarLink is not for those who have access to better alternatives. It's for those of us who don't have access to anything else, and likely won't see it for many years, and we're very happy to have it. There are some areas of the southeast US (and a few other smaller spots) that are congested, but there are a lot more of us, a silent majority you might say, that are far better off than before StarLink.