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Cable will reach anywhere. There is not such a place that cable “will not reach”. Is there a profit incentive to serve you as a customer in a capitalist system? Maybe not. But cable will reach.

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Not sure if you are in Europe, but in the US there are places where you could walk the width of Germany and see 100 houses. It does not serve to be technically correct here. Also, how would that work with boats / other vehicles and places without infrastructures?

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There are exceptions, but in most cases (in Europe) hardwire should work fine. The problem is that starlink is advertised for any use case.

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Their are villages in rural England who don’t have fiber. It wouldn’t be cost-effective delay it for the six customers that require it.

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Well, cable will not reach a warzone which is a rather pertinent use for a satellite communication system at present.

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The cost of a cable to a remote cabin is clearly not worth it either when you can just use a 4G antenna instead at a fraction of the cost. Ships won’t even be able to reach 4G signals.

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You’d need signal boosters at regular intervals, which need power… so now you’re running multiple cables.

But you can’t run them too close together as the power will induce noise in the data cable.

And after a long distance even the power needs boosting.

And to protect the cables, you’d need to bury them or put them on poles. Separately.

At a certain point, cable becomes the expensive option…

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Usually fiber is used between cities and in cities and copper is for the “last mile”. Usually there is a switching box for the street / building complex

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You still need signal reconditioning for fibre too, which needs power…

I know where you’re coming from, but not everywhere is populated enough, so these alternatives exist.

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I know plent of places in my European country where cable does reach, but was made for landline phones and cannot carry any data for internet because its so far from the nearest distribution center. even wireless like microwave can’t sustain more than a quality camera feed

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One broken cable can result in a city/town without internet. Speaking from experience.

Also satellites have other uses like GPS

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I doubt they use the same satellites for GPS

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