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Fiber construction is $6,000/HHP for dense suburban deployment and much much higher for rural. So a meaningful chunk of the world's rural population may not be able to afford the NRE. Getting the world high speed Internet is going to require a battery of solutions. The real competition for LEO satcomms is a 5G cell site a few miles away with fiber backhaul.


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