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SpaceX projected 20 million Starlink users by 2022—it ended up with 1 million (arstechnica.com)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Rural areas are already covered by Viasat. Which is going to be more efficient due to the simple nature of only needing like 5 to 10 satellites in the 100-year orbit height... rather than 60,000+ Starlink satellites in the 5-year orbit height.

Latency sucks with Viasat. You won't play multiplayer games on it, and even web browsing will be sluggish with how many round trips displaying just a single page requires nowadays.