Earlier quoted context omitted.
It only just showed up for CA (in 2021) and mostly only along the border (eg Victoria). Granted a lot of population is lower.. but current ETAs (from the starlink "Order" page) for the 5 biggest cities are all tbd: - Montreal late 2022 (4.2M people) - Vancouver late 2022 (2.6M people) - Toronto 2022-2023 (6.2M people) - Calgary 2022-2023 (1.6M people) - Edmonton late 2023 (1.4M people)
There is no way that getting a satellite connection inside a city is cheaper or more practical than a physical line though. It will be necessarily slower, have worse latency and be more expensive.
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I didn't say it was? I just used cities (major population centers) to determine what coverage was like (bad) and how much of the country had access (almost none).
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#222Earlier quoted context omitted.
There is no way that getting a satellite connection inside a city is cheaper or more practical than a physical line though. It will be necessarily slower, have worse latency and be more expensive.
I didn't say it was? I just used cities (major population centers) to determine what coverage was like (bad) and how much of the country had access (almost none).
My reaction was with regards to the parent’s question, sorry if it came out as flippant.
If those are indeed the planned locations for expansion then it’s even worse for Starlink because nobody over there needs it.
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#223Any ideas why this is $500/mo?
My gigabit symmetric fiber at home is $70/mo. The same service from the same provider costs $400/mo at our office. The answer to your question seems to be "because business".
Different locations have different costs of delivery, and business services also generally have different SLA and contention rules.