ryzvonusef
8 hours ago
If it's congested, then that's an indication that place needs Wired Broadband internet, preferably FTTH fibre but FTTN copper at the minimum.
FCC can use this as a gauge to force internet providers to offer services in these locations as part of their license, isntead of the current method which uses census blocks, iirc.
grecy
7 hours ago
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.
ryzvonusef
5 hours ago
From what I understand, if one person in a Census block has Fibre, FCC considers they all have fiber. (please correct me if i am wrong, but that's what I understand from various articles on this topic)
So if a census block is a dozen houses big, there could be 1 house just on the edge of a previous run, which has fiber, but 11 houses down the street where the Comcast or whichever has no interest in digging/trenching for whatever reason and thus they are stuck in dial-up land.
(From the articles, it seemed this wasn't a fake scenario but common place)
They all buy starlink and create a congestion, but they have no real alternative.