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[–] [email protected] 2 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

What is the alternative?

Geostationary needs a lot more power to transmit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 hours ago

What is the alternative?

Underground fiber. The thing we paid all our telecoms to install back in the 90s, which they promptly didn't do after pocketing all the money.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 20 hours ago

That's not even the issue with geostationary. The problem is latency to/from satellites in geostationary orbit.