You can get much cheaper redundancy by having ANOTHER CABLE! It's not about what you think is nice to have; it's about what you'll actually pay for. Like Tesla, SiaceX and all this retard's scams, Starlink only works thanks to government contracts --i.e. theft. They don't work because consumers pay for them
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Ok.
But who do you see laying out another cable in the near term?
And won’t that still require permission from let’s say governments on both sides of the Atlantic (if we’re talking about that particular cable)?
There’s a reason the CCP is worried about Starlink.
Yep, he only pushes things when it suits him. See ESG!
This won’t be settled until someone does the math. My money is on the low earth orbit satellites being far cheaper than the wire and the labor associated with placing it, along with cell towers. Wired infrastructure is way more labor intensive. Musk’s cell phones will communicate directly with his satellites. They won’t need a Starlink dish.