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all 3 of the other largest intersat providers cover most of the world, Viasat for example cover most everything other than the deep Sahara and the exact borders of Russia
You've clearly never read anything about Starlink and it's implementation. Rural customers are desperate for any alternatives, and Starlink has 100s of LEO satellites vs Viasat's.. 4.
Ya, that's because Viasat has their satellites in a higher orbit, covering more land per sat, and allowing them to use beefier satellites (this is important for reliability, what most of the sat-com users need as you recently saw in Ukraine).
but no, I have in fact read plenty about Starlink, and its implementation, and know full well that this is literally just "bigger number more impressive", most rural customers who needed internet already know about sat-coms.
As for the 1 million (21 million short of projected users, because turns out rural people already know about sat-com, and why switch?), many of those are, and I hate to sound like a rural elitist, people from cities who only recently moved out into the middle of nowhere.
as for the LEO vs. GSO, it is about 400ms extra ping, but unless you are stock trading or playing video games ping doesn't really matter, and you shouldn't do either of them over sat-coms anyway.
Alright, I concede. These are all fair points.
Seems like it's available in Spain south America and qatar