Comment by oh_sigh
2 years ago
Does a monopoly make sense here? Pre starlink, there was probably a huge cost to bring internet to the island, and those doing so wanted to have some form of protection in order to confidently invest the capital to do so.
Yeah, I could totally imagine some long-term bandwidth lease funding the launch of a geostationary satellite.
But enforcing that monopoly against private users, i.e. not resellers/ISPs, seems somewhat extreme.