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Yeah. Increasingly reliable satellite internet really killed their bottom line over the last few years.
Any alternatives to the Starlink?
While not the same thing, cellular internet is not bad these days. I've been on T-Mobile's internet connection for a couple years and other than CGNAT making self-hosting harder, it's been pretty solid. This is in a rural area where we got to choose between Cable or go get fucked for high speed internet for a long time.
The other satellite players (Hughesnet, Viasat), the fixed 5G boxes (although places sufficiently rural to seriously consider dialup may not have 5G), probably some smaller boutique dialup ISPs.
I read months ago that Amazon was stepping into the game but I haven't heard anything since then.
What we really need to compete against Starlink's network full of small satellites threatening a Kessler syndrome incident is a second network full of small satellites threatening s Kessler syndrome incident. And a third and a fourth.
Or put fiber everywhere.
Starlink satellites are in low Earth orbit. They could still cause Kessler syndrome, but aren't as much of a concern as higher orbits.
Here are some quotes regarding this from and Aerospace America article
That's just "the worst possible consequences won't happen". The danger at higher orbits is that things wouldn't come down, and we couldn't safely launch rockets past that orbit. That wouldn't happen here, but destroying everything in LEO would still be pretty bad. Astronauts would likely die.
Currently, no one compares to Starlink, unfortunately. It’s really that much better. Source: FiL has been on the beta since the first constellation went up.
Kuiper and Guowang are currently launching satellites. It will probably be a few years before they are operational though.