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Spoken like a true spoiled city person Good luck getting the necessary infrastructure built (cables, towers, et al) to really remote places. It’s probably more expensive in the long run than having a satellite constellation.

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Good luck? Most of the world is already there. I had 3g in deep jungles of Thailand last weekend and even in the most remote places in China have wire these days.

The main point is that sat is limited by physics so cell towers and wire are upgrades over sat so it makes much more sense to start with better technology now as we’ll never need less connection.

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Counterpoint: even an hour out from Oslo there are people relying on Starlink

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Seems like a skill issue tbh

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And wires are not bound by physics? To run cables over such long distances you have to boost the signal at periodic distances to avoid voltage drops and noise

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If we can figure out how to put them on the bottom of the ocean and pipelines over just about any terrain, I think we can figure this out

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Idk i live in a country where we have wifi in some forests and free wifi in every large city. And we’re an ex soviet shithole.

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Americans honestly think their shitty infrastructure is the best in the world.

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To be fair america is massive and a 3rd world shithole. If even russia can’t pave its main highway how could a backwoods place like america have enough infrastructure to make cash obsolete?

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