Elon Musk: “Starlink is very complementary to the existing telecom…”

“So in rural areas is where you tend to have the worst Internet because it's very expensive, difficult to lay, to do all the fiber optic cables or to have high bandwidth cellular towers. So Starlink is very complementary to the existing telecom companies. It basically tends to serve the least served, which I think is good. Will that change tomorrow? Today, as you explained, the beam is quite broad and it can't work in a densely populated area with high buildings.” (27:02–27:09)

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