• Jason2357@lemmy.ca
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    8 hours ago

    From orbit, whole regions are within a few degrees arc from the perspective of orbit. It’s not enough to overcome what is fundamentally a business hype problem. Starlink is wonderful tech for remote outposts, boats, disaster areas, emergency service workers, and things like that, but those customers would never pay enough to be profitable, so they have marketed it as general purpose internet, so it will get slower the more people sign up.

    • cole@lemdro.id
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      3 hours ago

      Yes, with the current network this is true. I guess it feels like you’re discounting the future growth of the constellation