They need to consider SLA’s when looking at broadband.

We just got FTTH on our block, but, in 2022, the phone company’s DSL offering only achieved 1 nine for the only people I know that used it (and they switched to starlink). The current marketing materials claim three nines (SLO, not SLA), which is pretty poor.

At this point we’re all waiting a few years to see if the offering is reliable.

By comparison, in Starlink’s worst year, we got 5 nines at our place.

So, we’re happily paying 7x more for 1/10th the bandwidth than the fiber network advertises.

I suspect many places where it is congested already has , and this is designed to make starlink less appealing to customers that have a wired alternative.

Like a fifth of the country is considered rural. That’s not very narrow circumstances.

I don’t think my options are particularly unusual… my options for broadband are 5/0.3Mbps DSL, 25/5Mbps LTE with a punishing bandwidth cap, or 25/1Mbps satellite internet with a 350GB cap.

Friend on Frontier had a 5Mbps plan on a node so oversubscribed that in almost a decade he only saw it get past 1Mbps once… at 3AM one night. The state attorney got involved.

For a modern house where we might want to do something crazy like watch TV while someone’s working none of these will really get us there.

With Starlink I usually get ~150/30Mbps and no caps.

And this isn't "remote Yukon wilderness" or something. I'm right in the middle of three of the largest cities in the country... an hour away from two of them, four from the third. I can get to like 6 different Costcos and three Ikeas within an hour's drive.

There's people who'd want it at $25,000 per dish and $10,000 per month.

All the people who waited for months to get one show there's a market

You forget all the traditional users of satellite Internet. Islands, Planes, Antarctica, regular ships, rockets, drones etc.

Right now it's priced cheap enough for some GA uses.

It’s for the hundreds of millions of people around the world who have no wired option.

It’s a game changer in remote Australia, Yukon and Alaska, etc etc

I live in central Los Angeles and use Starlink as a failover to my cable internet. Sometimes there are outages and Starlink takes over. I've also tested Verizon 5G home internet but Starlink was faster and more affordable.

Imagine being remote in the world during your wondering:)