I’d like you all to consider that places where you’d use starlink are also significantly more than 30x farther away from civilization than the average land-based internet user.
Out in middle of nowhere Ohio, the only options are satellite and I’ll be damned if I’m doing to give Dish or Hughes net more money for worse speeds. Starlink is it until they actually run fiber out here.
Definitely, that’s what we should do. But that will have a decent carbon footprint and more importantly our government (at least in the US) has utterly failed rural Americans (and more!) in terms of internet roll out.
That’s one of the problems with Internet access being provided by private corporations. They’re never going to service those people, because it’s not profitable to run a hundred miles of fiber for one guy in Wyoming, unless he’s crazy rich and pays for it himself. It’s the same issue the mail has, one of the many reasons the USPS is so important
Think of all the pollution that will be caused running new fiber cable to bumblefuck nowhere so 1 additional person or family can access the internet. It doesn’t make any more sense than Starlink, much less sense at that.
I’d like you all to consider that places where you’d use starlink are also significantly more than 30x farther away from civilization than the average land-based internet user.
Out in middle of nowhere Ohio, the only options are satellite and I’ll be damned if I’m doing to give Dish or Hughes net more money for worse speeds. Starlink is it until they actually run fiber out here.
Are those places connected to the power grid? If yes then there is no reason they can’t have fiber Internet. If we can electrify we can internetify.
Definitely, that’s what we should do. But that will have a decent carbon footprint and more importantly our government (at least in the US) has utterly failed rural Americans (and more!) in terms of internet roll out.
That’s one of the problems with Internet access being provided by private corporations. They’re never going to service those people, because it’s not profitable to run a hundred miles of fiber for one guy in Wyoming, unless he’s crazy rich and pays for it himself. It’s the same issue the mail has, one of the many reasons the USPS is so important
Think of all the pollution that will be caused running new fiber cable to bumblefuck nowhere so 1 additional person or family can access the internet. It doesn’t make any more sense than Starlink, much less sense at that.
No, many are not on the power grid.
We tried to run fiber everywhere in the US, spent billions of dollars, but it still didn’t get built.