[srmanuel]

I routinely check YouTube for new Starlink Videos, specifically looking for new places where it’s being beta tested and any new speed increases...

Beta Test users are springing up in Australia and New Zealand a lot recently....
I’ve also seen a few users reporting 300mb plus download speeds, which is a game changer for remote areas....

Australia evidently has been trying to implement a National Broadband Network (NBN) to really remote areas and Starlink is likely to make that network a waste of time and money unless by competition they rapidly pickup the pace and compete, which is going to be very, very difficult....

Getting a Starlink terminal sent to you and setting it up in less than 1 hour and pulling in 300mb downloads in really remote areas versus fiber being run everywhere is a no brainer on who will win that customer....

If Starlink can deliver on equipment and service, they going to very big and VERY profitable IMO..

[SunkenCiv]

The fiber buildout is (or is going to become) financed by cell companies, because without a faster ground network, they're not going to get 5G, 6G, etc. My view is, with the rising price of copper, the traditional landline companies should be building that and selling capacity to the mobile vendors, and finance part of that by a one-size-fits-all home service (web, landline at a single price, and optional cable -- but who cares about that?) by recovery of the old buried copper lines, since copper prices are up and are likely to continue to rise.

I took SpaceX's Starlink 'Dishy' to my cousin's farm! | Jeff Geerling | April 9, 2021

This is the first of a series of videos where I'll be exploring Starlink, SpaceX's new satellite-based Internet service.

[Western Phil]

How many customers will it take to overload the system? If its like everything else, advertised service will not meet expectations. Real physics is a hard master.