[HN Gopher] 90-year-old man spends $10K on ads to tell AT&T CEO ... ___________________________________________________________________ 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] ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-02-13 23:00 UTC)