Looks like ISPs in rural US are basically walking corpses now that Starlink is building up.
@kline
They would have to build huge amount of fiber lines to beat Starlink so they probably won't do that
@matrix rural areas in Scotland get decent microwave links across mountain ranges and out into the islands at reasonable costs.
It's not going to be gigabit fiber for each home, but they would be able to compete.
Instead, I think they'd rather play the "unregulated space internet is killing the ability for us to set down hard US infra".
@kline
I forgot those options exist. What's the performance like? From what I looked at with Starlink, it fluctuates between 20-120Mbps and 30-60ms depending on the satellite, weather etc.
Wireless on the ground faces the same issues, so the only competing point could be the price as Starlink is pretty expensive.
@matrix This will be the final nail in the coffin for AOL and MSN dial up.
@matrix they could compete, i just suspect they dont want to