Exactly. Pass a law that requires to lease the last mile (connectivity between POP and your home) for reasonable cost (i.e. maintenance cost) and we will start seeing actual competition.
We had huge selection of ISP in early 2000 exactly because telcos were required to do exactly that.
Not entirely. There are no terrestrial internet options in the middle of the ocean, for example. Starlink covers areas that are impossible to cover with terrestrial internet even if you completely ignored the economics.
The market for starlink exists because terrestrial broadband is such a shit show.
That’s because Ma Bell and the Cable Boys are still running the show and no one is holding them accountable.
Exactly. Pass a law that requires to lease the last mile (connectivity between POP and your home) for reasonable cost (i.e. maintenance cost) and we will start seeing actual competition.
We had huge selection of ISP in early 2000 exactly because telcos were required to do exactly that.
I wish I could updoot this more than once.
Starlink is a treatment of a symptom, not the root cause.
Not entirely. There are no terrestrial internet options in the middle of the ocean, for example. Starlink covers areas that are impossible to cover with terrestrial internet even if you completely ignored the economics.