Re:amazing (Score 1)

It may be cheaper, but that's because the # of users is far, far less. Right now, Starlink has 500k preorders. That's like the size of Colorado Springs metro. They are looking for 1-10 million subscribers in the USA. The estimate is that 46 million homes have fiber to the home right now. Each one of those fiber lines could support 10 Gbps or more just by changing out the boxes. Even at 10 Gbps and assuming a 10x oversubscription, that's still 46,000 Terabits terrestrially, just in fiber alone and ignoring business fiber. Starlink is just now matching the combined over-the-USA bandwidth of HughesNet and Viasat geosync satellites, or about 300 Gbps. There are many orders of magnitude more bandwidth available in all those fiber lines and other copper lines. Starlink is awesome but will never ever compete with that.