Comment by syntaxing
12 hours ago
The use case varies but for what it’s worth, most major cellular provider in the US offer fallback Internet plans. Ranges from 10-20 a month depending if you already have a line with them. AT&T has an interesting one where your phone lines hotspot is free and unthrottled whenever your fiber is impacted.
Yeah but if you need Internet failover, cell phone towers are likely flooded. Starlink will be much more available (probably).
This too depends on which POP/ground station you're landing at.
Maybe less so once the majority of starling satellites are capable of laser communications to route your traffic down to a less saturated ground station.
The vast majority of Starlink satellites do have laser interconnect now. They started launching them in 2021 or 2022 I believe.