As someone that lives in the rural US and has no option for internet besides Starlink, I’d much rather have fiber. Starlink isn’t bad, but it’s garbage compared to fiber.
Plus I don’t want to give Elmo my money. I really wish I had other options.
Fiber is amazing. I paid $90 for 400 down and 10 up on cable… Then moved to a place with fiber. My fiber is now $49 for 1,000 down and 1,000 up.
in the west coast sonic can provide up to 10gbits. for 40$ starting price. catch is the COL is somewhat expensive. for the longest time xfinity was the only choice, and we have known thier constantly changing the tiers of the services to charge people more.
There is absolutely no reason the US government shouldn’t be launching their own public satellite internet.
Look at North Korea. People get killed for smuggling in flash drives with western media into the country. We could be streaming it from uninterruptible satellites. We could be fighting the global information war on a level most other countries could only dream of.
On the domestic end, if we get Internet access to every corner of the country, it opens up remote work to every American. That could bring an incredible economic boost to impoverished rural areas.
Trump shut down Radio Free Asia. And Radio Free Europe, and Voice of America. I don’t think he cares about getting the message out there.
And as far as a public Internet? Have you met the US? We can’t deliver electricity or water without someone making a profit on each unit of energy or water delivered. It’s unamerican. Why would satellite Internet be any different?
Yeah amigo, I get that’d be amazing but you think the government would want highly educated populace here and everywhere? and with free access to all kinds of information?
Yeah right…
I would much rather see Europe doing it.
We are losing the information war at home. Why would we wish our terrible misinformation on anyone else? They’d turn this into a news max global broadcast system.
Satellite internet is simply never going to best the throughput and stability of fiber. Just another corrupt action so this administration can line their pockets.
And it totally won’t be monitored or censored … promise! /s
probably the point of putting it in the white house, so russia can monitor it.
Wow I’m shocked. This is my shocked face.
USA has always been corrupt. What’s chocking is the brazenness of this administration. Former administrations at least had the decency to do it in the shadows.
I never expected the US to go down this way…
Really?? They have been shouting it from the topnof their lungs since Reagan
Yeah I thought it would be a lot more Robocop 2.
Can starling even come close to the speed of fiber? I’m getting a gibabit a second for 50 bucks a month
Nowhere close. Wireless anything needs to share a band across multiple devices. With fiber, you can either have an exclusive run to the service provider or, at the very least, to a connection point shared with some neighbors.
I’ve seen about 250mbps down on a friend’s terminal. You can probably get faster.
It’s not meant for that and won’t really ever compete well against it if fiber can be run there cost effectively, although there are odd situations even in cities where it’s useful.
Like maybe there’s a warehouse in some part of a big city that somehow wasn’t connected and the utilities wants 50k to connect it.
Realistically we can’t run fiber everywhere, but there’s many millions of more homes out there that could be but aren’t, and the telcos keep taking money to do the upgrades and do jack all.
the latency for satellite signal is very problematic, while fiber is near instanenous. also satellite signals can be intercepted by hostile parties.
