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Elon Musk: “It's not physically possible for Starlink to serve densely…”

Featuring: Elon Musk, Senior Advisor to the President, Head of Department of Government Efficiency | National

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Elon Musk: A Different Conversation w/ Nikhil Kamath | Full Episode | People by WTF Ep. 16

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In the future we'll try to get down to 350km, but we can't beat something that's 1km away, which the cell tower physics is not on our side here. So It's not physically possible for Starlink to serve densely populated cities. You can serve a little bit, maybe 1% of the population. And sometimes people get even in crowded cities. There might be no fiber link up their road. (28:15–28:22)

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Asserts that Starlink cannot effectively serve densely populated urban areas due to physical limitations.

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