[HN Gopher] 90-year-old man spends $10K on ads to tell AT&T CEO ...
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90-year-old man spends $10K on ads to tell AT&T CEO about slow
internet service
Author : turtlegrids
Score : 34 points
Date : 2021-02-13 18:42 UTC (4 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.news10.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.news10.com)
| coldcode wrote:
| All I have is Spectrum in my neighborhood despite being in the
| middle of a huge metro area. Everyone I work with has AT&T and I
| am stuck with Spectrum's over priced slow lane as there are no
| alternatives. Maybe Starlink will finally provide some
| competition some day.
| TheBill wrote:
| AT&T's been so slow in getting fiber laid in the north and west
| suburbs of Chicago that I know more than a dozen homes in line
| for Starlink. Family's been puttering along on 25 down/5 up for
| the last 4 years with an annual angry phone call to keep it under
| $80. AT&T's done a half dozen neighborhoods that Comcast, RCA or
| Verizon haven't, but none their in.
| zamadatix wrote:
| Starlink isn't really a solution for dense areas like suburbs
| at the moment, maybe in future versions. Well, at least except
| for the few that can get it quick.
| leetrout wrote:
| Interesting- I didn't realize there was a limitation by
| density of transceivers.
|
| Do you have a link with more info?
| coryrc wrote:
| Each satellite has a bandwidth limit and can cover a
| certain area (more satellites per area close to the poles).
| It's not that they "can't" it's that they won't be able to
| be competitive in most suburbs, at least not at this time.
| mlyle wrote:
| Basically, fixed wireless should win every time over
| satellite when fixed wireless is possible.
|
| Less path loss means more bits per Hz of bandwidth. Less
| exotic equipment (no beam-steering). More opportunity for
| densification to increase capacity. The possibility of
| wired backhaul.
|
| It's only when population density is low, or fill-in for
| areas where towers don't quite reach, or for specialized
| uses (military, redundancy in access, some mobile use
| cases, some financial use cases with reduced latency) ---
| that satellite is a clear win.
|
| Starlink can have a plenty big business addressing the
| most rural and fill-in, though.
| eps wrote:
| From 4 days ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26086288
| m463 wrote:
| and 9 days ago :)
|
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26029181
| rgj wrote:
| " Our European visitors are important to us.
|
| This site is currently unavailable to visitors from the European
| Economic Area while we work to ensure your data is protected in
| accordance with applicable EU laws."
|
| The GDPR went into effect almost three years ago. I guess we're
| not _that_ important to news10.com.
| jgimenez wrote:
| Clearly we're not important, otherwise you guys would follow
| the rules. Actually blocking the access is _against_ the law.
| mlyle wrote:
| Expecting a random local news station in the US to subject
| itself to European jurisdiction and follow European privacy
| laws is a bit of a stretch, IMO.
| Aldipower wrote:
| And who is AT&T?
| [deleted]
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