[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.

[SunkenCiv]

Caveat: this guy’s a dipstick. His country cousin is the funny one, which means, it’s worse than you even think.

[srmanuel]

The problem with 5G or 6G or whatever follows is it will require as you said infrastructure to be built....

By the end of 2021 at it’s current pace Starlink will be out of beta test in a lot of areas....their biggest 3 factors are getting dishes out, launching new satellites and corresponding ground stations to handle the expanding coverage.....

The problem with traditional telecom providers is in most of the world they are state owned or heavily subsidized companies who don’t have to really compete for business and competition to them is a unknown concept....