The Verge Reviews Starlink Beta
> Steve Stroh
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> A number of people who've followed my two previous articles - Why
> Starlink Will Win Rural Broadband and More on Starlink pointed out an
> article published today on The Verge:
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> Starlink review: broadband dreams fall to Earth by Nilay Patel. >
> Unfortunately, instead of being a fair and impartial review, I think
> Patel misses two three four major points about Starlink, and missing
> those points tarnishes the review.n
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Mr. Stroh's critique includes this comment, and a quote from the original:
... the article is readable, informative, and at points actually amusing, such as:
And lastly, if you are a telecom executive or regulator in the United States, you have no choice but to see Starlink, its execution, and the unrestrained excitement and hype around it as a direct indictment of your rhetoric and efforts to properly connect this country to the internet over the past two decades.
I couldn't agree more: it *is* amusing. The idea that the political class can continue to sit astride a bottleneck that chokes off any information that our ruling class doesn't want us to see is both laughable and sad. It doesn't matter what technology bypasses that bottleneck, only that it will happen.
Bill