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Thanks AT&T!
So land based internet feeds 1 tree and Starlink feeds 30 trees. Guess the Ents will be using Starlink then.
And starlink is freaking amazing! High speed internet in all rural and remote areas. Truly a great future for the human race.

Amazon and others are gearing up to launch thousands of satellites to compete. They are playing catch up to Elons vision.

> High speed internet in all rural and remote areas. Truly a great future for the human race.

Is this sarcasm?

This is the high cost of government regulation. It's actually cheaper and easier to start a rocket company and provide internet from space than to deal with all of the state, local, and federal entanglements that have been thoroughly co-opted by the incumbents.
And significantly worse for the environment. It's only cheaper if you ignore externalities (which, ironically, the government refuses to regulate)