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Reminder that an alternative for Starlink is needed, exchange between Musk and the Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs (i.postimg.cc)
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[โ€“] LordKitsuna@lemmy.world 10 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

They use higher orbiting satellites which come with some trade-offs, lower speeds higher latency and more easily disrupted by weather events. When they say there is no competition they mean in terms of what you get and as much as I hate the man he isn't wrong there is nothing to compete with starlink right now

[โ€“] MITM0@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

So we just bring the satellites closer