Montana is awarding SpaceX's Starlink $119 million to bring high-speed internet to 20,000 underserved locations in the state.https://www.pcmag.com/news/montana-picks-starlink-amazons-project-kuiper-over-fiber-for-broadbandThought you were getting FTTH with that money? Fuck you.
>>106419610While it sicks, I can understand them not wanting to deal with the legal red tape and lawsuits from the existing isps that could take years to iron out.
>>106419708and then them giving the money to the existing isp just for them to drag their feet and end up never doing anything with it.
>>106419610$119 million in Montana would get FTTH to like 5 cows. Starlink is obviously a better solution, and the speed is already in the same order of magnitude as fiber with better latency.
$6,000 per location is pretty cheap for infrastructure.
>>106419708Communities could literally come together and fund their own ISP, a single man did it when Comcast refused to expand for 20,000. He started his own ISP for that.https://www.npr.org/2022/08/22/1118734792/michigan-man-isp-fiber-internet
>>106419610desu laying the fiber would be way too much work fighting lobbyists and illegal sabotage and shitjust ship out the starlink terminals, you dont need gigabit internet to go on twitter and say dumb shit
Surely all the usual suspects that object to government money used to help the underserved will loudly object to this as they are not hypocritical at all and very honest with their opinions.
>>106419610Considering the size of states and how empty they fucking are, probably a solution that gets high speed broadband to more places than you would with laying fiber for that money.
>>106419610>third world satellite internetcringe>>106419835>Starlink is obviously a better solution, and the speed is already in the same order of magnitude as fiber with better latency.that's nothing more than a blatant lie from a technologically challenged ape man that has no idea how satellite communications work. did you think you're favourite pedophile has defied the laws of physics and electromagnetism? did he solve the satellite congestion problems? what's that? no? shocking.
>>106419610>based guy in the 90s lays fiber in my shithole town>he's too early, gets panned for it >shithole town gets gigabit fiber internet when other towns are stuck with garbage like dsl or starlink or hughsnet type crapfeels good. a prophet is never recognized in his homeland
>>106419610>undeservedthen why gib dem anything?
>>106419878That's how cable tv started. People living in areas with poor television reception would ban together to pay for a high grade antenna, often mounted up on a hill, and then distribute that signal around to everyone who chipped in. On older computer and game console switch boxes, you can find some marked CATV (Community Antenna Television), as that was more common at the time than what later would become cable television with dozens of channels from all over.
>>106420647Did he eventually get paid and recognized for his forward thinking or did he go bankrupt and whoever bought up the fiber end up benefiting?
>>106420619Not to mention the fact that the satellites are constantly moving in orbit and you therefore can't stay connected to a single moving satellite and have to hop between many multiple geostationary satellites.It is very clever how Starlink functions and it also has tremendous military value. Providing consumer Internet services on the side is just the excuse needed to launch so many fucking satellites in space to the point that they're almost colliding with other objects (space is congested as fuck and the US is in arms race with China to see who can fit the most objects up there).Let's not pretend Starlink is somehow better than fiber. It's an amazing feat of human engineering but still fiber to your home would be better still.
>>106420781>the satellites are constantly moving in orbit and you therefore can't stay connected to a single moving satellite and have to hop between many multiple geostationary satellites.>constantly moving in orbit>hop between many multiple geostationary satellitesuhmm.. can you, like, make up your mind?
>>106420647>gets panned for ithow, why
>>106420972Are you seriously asking why someone shelling out to lay fiber optics would be ridiculed when only a fifth of the town uses internet, and 99% are using dialup through the phone company?
>>106421087yes
