SpaceX Starlink average speedtest is 42.3Mbps down / 9.7 Mbps up
So I guess companies will now fill the entire global sky with thousands of sats just to make up for the fact that the US government ignores rural houses when it comes to digital infrastructure?<p>I'm sorry but how is 42Mbps worth spamming the entire nightsky with to the point that it prevent astronomers from obtaining useful data? Not even 10Mbps upload?<p>My inlaws live in a village in France that has 70 people total. It's 25min drive to a bakery, 45min drive to anything resembling a supermarket. I'd say it's rural.<p>They now have 16Mbps *DSL and are scheduled to get Fiber in 2021. Next village already has it.<p>But because the American government refuses to invest in infrastructure the rest of the planet just has to accept some American company is going to put 14,000 sats in low orbit?<p>Besides the progress this resembles I still think it's pretty strange the US government can greenlight this plan even though it has global implications.