@joshuafoust infavt, #SpaceX, (like the #Hyperloop,) is merely good ad #FUD'ding investments into #Infrastruvture like (#PublicTransport and) #Fiber, because even cheap-ass equipment cobbled together from https://fs.com can provide cheaper and faster connectivity in most cases by virtue of #FTTB / #FTTH being inherently faster, lower latency and cheaper to maintain...
- Shure installing a fiber line may cost a bit, but like electrical and phone cables, they can be mounted on poles (aka. "aerial cable" amd aside from splicing and bending radii, have not that many concerns attached to them).
Plus fiber is way more energy-saving, fobust against #RainFade and doesn't rely on #proprietary & expensive #SATCOM hardware on the customers' ends...
- Imagine how many kilometers of fiber could've been laid with the same budget, regardless if money, personnel hours or CO2 compared to launching megavonstellations that are so low in their orbits that they barely last years at best...