alt Hacker NewsSpectrum contention is going to be insane in D2D.
Starlink already has to constrain the number of broadband accounts per locale to avoid saturation.
Spectrum contention is going to be insane in D2D.
Starlink already has to constrain the number of broadband accounts per locale to avoid saturation.
Fixed Starlink is competing with fiber/DOCSIS/DSL, though. That's orders of magnitude more bandwidth than people in areas remote enough to not warrant a terrestrial cell base station (which could itself also be backhauled over much more efficient fixed satellite).