Prof. Sam Lawler@sundogplanets@mastodon.social
I assumed that Starlink has sucked up so much of their rural Sask business that they are having to shut off towers as more and more Canadians switch to using American billionaire-owned satellites. But no, they sent out a confusing form letter to everyone: they're actually just upgrading my tower and my receiver is too old. (Annoying because my farm-sitter will have to deal with this, but oh well)
So, I still have access to cell-tower ground-based internet, in rural Canada. For now!
Prof. Sam Lawler@sundogplanets@mastodon.social
My house is 10km from the nearest town, and 1/2km from my nearest neighbour. But I am hooked to an electric line, I could be hooked to a wired phone line, I could hook up to a water line, and I could even hook up to a natural gas line (which is completely wild).
But no wired broadband internet! This is just not where governments are putting money, and many are happy to use Starlink to leapfrog that rural infrastructure development cost, at the cost of supporting an American billionaire company.