I agree-ish, wartime is something else, but if we have fiber up in Hudson bay we really don’t need-need starlink anywhere in 2026 (other than where we’ve dragged our feet getting fiber).
airplanes could use an elliptical sattelite for their high speed, low latency requirments. Personally though any connection more than a high orbit satellite provides is a nice to have, but not safety critical by any means.
Plus LEO is just intentionally wasteful, I wouldn’t be surprised if starlibk was a money hole without its military contracts.
Thank you for being devil’s advocate. Don’t let the downvoting hypocrites get to you. Upvoted.
Satellite internet should be in geo, not leo
If fiber companies used 1% of the money we throw at them to actually build fiber, sattelite internet would never need to exist.
Its the most centralised, short term, low speed, expansive option possible and we are choosing it.
Fibre doesn’t work in airplanes or remote areas. Ukraine can’t use fibre in its very long range drones (they do for the short range ones).
There different use cases. That said, I still agree with you, we should have more fibre.
I agree-ish, wartime is something else, but if we have fiber up in Hudson bay we really don’t need-need starlink anywhere in 2026 (other than where we’ve dragged our feet getting fiber).
airplanes could use an elliptical sattelite for their high speed, low latency requirments. Personally though any connection more than a high orbit satellite provides is a nice to have, but not safety critical by any means.
Plus LEO is just intentionally wasteful, I wouldn’t be surprised if starlibk was a money hole without its military contracts.