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As someone who relies on Starlink to get functional Internet access? Please, please give me more options.
4g and 5g at home installs are pretty viable for most of the US.
If you choose to live that far outside of civilization, frankly, that's a you problem. Not something worth littering space and pur atmosphere when they burn up on re-entry.
Not everyone can live in urban areas. This is such a stupid take. Fuck farmers and other folks who's livelihood relies on being further out from living centers, I guess.
5g can cover a lot of rural areas, it's not universal, but it's a lot more available than fiber or cable.
There are certainly a lot of holes in the coverage, but a lot of people I know who live in pretty rural farm areas went from pretty unreliable microwave internet, to extremely reliable 5g internet a couple years ago.
That's not going to be the solution for everyone, but it does work to (relatively) quickly get internet to a pretty big area.