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minus-squareCompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·21 days agoIt’s all the people getting Starlink because it looks cool. Also because there’s way too many areas with no alternatives; congestion is exactly why Starlink shouldn’t be getting any funding.
minus-squarestylusmobilus@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·13 days agoThat’s the issue in outback and rural Australia Nothing can compete with it out there, outside the townships and optic fibre hasn’t been laid everywhere including a lot of the towns. Cashed up bogans and tradies, grey nomads, all have it on their fourbys and Adventure Before Dementia buses.
It’s all the people getting Starlink because it looks cool.
Also because there’s way too many areas with no alternatives; congestion is exactly why Starlink shouldn’t be getting any funding.
That’s the issue in outback and rural Australia
Nothing can compete with it out there, outside the townships and optic fibre hasn’t been laid everywhere including a lot of the towns.
Cashed up bogans and tradies, grey nomads, all have it on their fourbys and Adventure Before Dementia buses.