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That's unfair to the millions of Americans living in rural areas having to cope with current slow speeds. Don't you want the world more connected?

The problem with the current scenario is ISPs and wireless providers won't run lines or stand up towers for a low populated area. They know they won't ever make the money back for the project. With low orbit satellites this problem is solved. Would you rather those people live in the past just because they don't choose to live in the city?



There are existing high speed satellite services.


Latency matters. LEO gives us that.


It does for some things, and not for others. Streaming and web browsing hardly have a difference.


The caps, bandwidth, and latency are all awful for current solutions.


They will be the same for SpaceX. What makes you think otherwise? Their constellation will not start out anywhere near the max capacity they've stated.




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