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Elon Musk Is Charging Starlink Customers Gigantic Bogus Fees Because Its Network Is Being Crushed by “High Demand” (www.yahoo.com)
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[–] daychilde@lemmy.world 4 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Hundreds of miles of expensive cable because terrain make expensive to serve dozens of hundreds.

[–] drmoose@lemmy.world -2 points 10 hours ago

It's significantly cheaper still. Cable is dirt cheap, technology of laying cable is mature and we already have roads developed to piggy back off infra off. Now think about satellites that only live a few years and are incredibly expensive and immature.