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A couple weeks ago I was way away from civilization deep in the mountains, and my buddy set up his Starlink for a project. I have a hard time believing traditional networks would have made that possible? We are about to use it for the ocean in a few weeks as well..
But I also would take deep space study over the convenience of internet anywhere. I'm just not sure traditional networks would have covered those areas?
If New Zealand can manage damn near 100% cellular coverage, and we have some pretty reasonable mountains, why can't others?
I mean New Zeeland is pretty wealthy and relatively small.
If that's true though, I'm impressed that New Zeeland has coverage through all those mountains. Definitely not the same situation in the American West
Centurylink/Quest/Whatever it was before received something like a billion dollars from the Obama administration to "connect the entire nation" with modern phone service. They didn't do that.
You could receive normal satellite internet the same way, the advantage starlink brings is that it's much lower latency than geosynchronous satellites and they're selling it for much less and more bandwith.
Normal sattelite internet is terrible