Question: Will terrestrial telcos become merely the ground-based franchisees of Starlink?
@ravirockks keep in mind that ground-based antennas are far, far more efficient and effective than even low orbit satellites.
This is a matter of physics that cannot be overcome by advancing satellite technology. Everything from the speed of light through bandwidth limitations restrain satellites from performing as well as ground-based antennas.
It might be possible that services like starlink will become ubiquitous fallbacks, but they will never be able to compete with ground-based transceivers just because of the physics involved.
One way to think about it is comparing Wi-Fi to wired ethernet. There's a very good reason that data centers continue to use wired ethernet instead of just going wireless.
@johntimaeus @volkris Thank you, both, for clarifying.
@volkris @ravirockks
Shannon's law still applies. Given enough money I can run more fibre to anywhere. Given all the money on the world I can't build more radio spectrum.