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pnwyesterday at 11:16 PM2 repliesview on HN

They said the same thing about cell phones vs landlines back in the day. Based on Starlink's revenue doubling year on year, and a six fold increase since 2022, I don't think anyone really knows what the upper bounds for global access is yet. And traditional telcos are usually limited to a region whereas Starlink is global. Just the top 20 global telcos alone are almost $2 trillion in market cap and $1.35 trillion in revenue. Starlink has captured less than 1% of that revenue to date.


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hattmalltoday at 2:31 AM

>They said the same thing about cell phones vs landlines

Did they? I don't really remember that tbh.

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raw_anon_1111today at 3:06 AM

Absolutely no one said that.

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