On 2021-02-10 14:05, jim bell wrote:

Ars Technica: ISPs step up fight against SpaceX, tell FCC that Starlink will be too slow. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/02/isps-step-up-fight-against-space...

The question is, will Starlink have capacity to adequately server rural locations in seven years time. The model that the critics are using to predict starlink shortfall assumes that subscribers will have a hundred megabits per second download and upload, and will on average consume 15.3 megabits per second, equivalent to everyone having a monthly cap of five hundred *terabytes* and using it all. That is one ginormous gigantic internet pipe to each consumer. The rural isps putting forward this objection typically provide caps less than than a thousandth of that.