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And I read somewhere that he may be trying to buy t mobile to be able to meet that demand.
That doesn’t make much sense, how is a completely different infrastructure going to help their capacity issues? Unless the plan is to pivot from satellite to 5G or something
Only people who aren't close to a celltower would use the satellites, which would cut the usage considerably.
Satellite as a primary network link for consumers was a dumb idea to start with, and it should have been a backup link to a land based ISP all along.
I would love to see solar/battery powered cell towers plopped down in the middle of nowhere with a starlink or other provider back link