All rural fiber needs to stop being placed . Satellite is the most cost effective and starlink is about to take on a lot of new country fans after seeing starlink advertisements during the NASCAR race ! I need my T stock to go up and I just don’t think we need to place fiber too far past city limits for a couple connections. It is not cost effective… I know because I am in C&E in the South y’all. Does anyone have starlink tha could compare the service to fiber ?
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@OP T gets big Federal money for rural improvements. So it does make sense.
We moved to a rural home and tried starlink. Works fine for surfing, but too much latency for work and conference calls.
@OP Appears they are taking a different path. https://about.att.com/story/2024/ast-spacemobile-commercial-agreement.html
Glad the brain trust on this forum is weighing in. Can’t get better advice than from a place like this.
stink-link would be att product name
@ax
"I'm in C&E also. We don't run fiber in rural areas. It never proves in."
But somehow buying companies that already did this for 4x the price per foot does prove in.
Starlink can’t compete with fiber reliability, quality and speed. It can however hand us our rear on a silver plated with cost. Cost beats quality. LEO can mass market faster than fiber. AT&T better get hip to LEO or get its rear handed to it by Starlink. Whatever happened to the One Web deal? (Low earth orbit).
Exactly what does the OP consider a rural area?
@aq , left turn on a red light.
I have starlink for 35 quids ...
I'm in C&E also. We don't run fiber in rural areas. It never proves in.
Why are you hanging onto T stock Billy Bob?
after seeing starlink advertisements during the NASCAR race
And another left turn. That means it won't be right for us.
If it wasn’t for Finance taking over with it’s stupid “area must prove in” we would have been done 7yrs ago and reaping the benefits.
Elon Musk is smart !