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[–] regedit@lemmy.zip 10 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

What's dumb about this statement is all Elon would have to do is market to all the places where broadband companies refuse to go and be affordable. tRump already killed the rural broadband initiatives. There's literally no competition and word-of-mouth could probably pull in more who are unhappy with their broadband provider.

However, capitalism and greed are cancers that know no limit...

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[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 100 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Hmmm ditch lightning fast and stable fiber for the mediocre speed and unstable micro satellite internet connection controlled by a petty asshole...

What to do, what to do?

[–] d00ery@lemmy.world 19 points 16 hours ago

Just think how much control he can have if he owns the medium which people access the internet.

And he'd only do good things with that power /s

[–] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 12 points 14 hours ago

Musk = POS Nazi.

[–] baronofclubs@lemmy.world 45 points 18 hours ago

A society grows great when old men plant fiber whose speed they know they shall never download from.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 9 points 14 hours ago

Goat says garden needs more carrots.

[–] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 5 points 13 hours ago

Well I say starlink and f'elon can suck my ass.

[–] ABetterTomorrow@sh.itjust.works 47 points 21 hours ago

Fiber fucking rules

[–] foggenbooty@lemmy.world 64 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Fibre is an investment that can be used and upgraded for decades. Starlink is a subscription service forever to a private company.

[–] Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com 26 points 21 hours ago (8 children)

And upgrading is piss cheap. Just change transceivers.

Same fiber cable that does 1gbps can do 100tbps.

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[–] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 188 points 1 day ago (41 children)

all you can eat latency and an oversaturated network on devices with a limited lifespan.. what else could you ask for!

[–] Brkdncr@lemmy.world 110 points 1 day ago (14 children)

I’m a starlink customer and think it’s one of the best advancements in the past decade as it provides real access to rural addresses. The side effects of this is nearly immeasurable.

Spacex needs to STFU about this though. Fiber should continue to be deployed where possible.

[–] AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today 109 points 1 day ago (8 children)

Fiber should be deployed to rural addresses like yours (and should've been a long time ago). Instead, that money was funneled to the likes of Time Warner and Comcast who never even followed through on their part of the deal. Now, SpaceX is getting funneled the cash.

I'm super thankful that WA State supports and gives assistance to counties building out public LUDs for fiber access, many paying attention to rural communities first. I escaped Comcast two years ago because of it.

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[–] Redex68@lemmy.world 5 points 14 hours ago

Lol, lmao even

[–] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 25 points 20 hours ago (10 children)

Honestly, I think starlink is a fantastic idea in general, but this is clearly bullshit. Starlink works well in tandem with fiber, not as a replacement.

It's just never going to be as cost effective as installed fiber. Fiber is obviously the right technology to use in heavily populated areas i.e. for the vast majority of Internet users. And where the population is sparse and laying fiber for individual customers is cost prohibitive, that is where satellite connectivity shines. If SpaceX or anyone else is pretending otherwise, they're being blatantly deceitful and malicious. That's not in Internet users' best interest.

[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Starlink still requires ground stations, and those ground stations can and are a limiting factor. I was up at a cabin that had Starlink, and service is still in the "better than nothing" phase.

There is concern for fucking up things like radio telescopes. Also, creating a Kessler syndrome event. "But LEO wouldn't have an issue with that because it would burn up". Two things:

  • Everything in LEO being destroyed is still really bad. Astronauts would likely die.
  • Objects in lower orbits can get ejected into higher orbits and hit things there. Kessler sydrome in LEO could potentially start a chain reaction in higher orbits.

Plus, the EU and China are understandably worried about Musk being the only game up there and want to deploy their own equivalent systems. So now there's not just one system of satellites threatening Kessler syndrome, but possibly three.

Just roll out fiber everywhere like we have with electricity.

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[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

In France they authorised air hanging fiber, so they just use electric poles and hang the fiber under the 220 volt lines, as a last resort.

Cheap as hell. Or, where there's a will there is a way.

[–] PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

We do this in some parts of America too. My grandmother’s local electric co-op provided fiber to her house this way in the middle of no where.

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[–] _lilith@lemmy.world 15 points 18 hours ago

That will work out as well as the death tunnel (formerly hyperlink)

[–] MNByChoice@midwest.social 24 points 21 hours ago

Alternative Headline: Billionaire Signals States Should Speed Fiber Rollout

[–] etherphon@piefed.world 29 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Yeah! I want my internet connection run by a man baby who turns off your access if he doesn't like you!

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