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Yes, in Australia certainly, coverage of StarLink is potentially better.

Much of Australia has great 4G LTE, but when there's no signal, there's really no signal.

So there are two obvious key advantages to StarLink:

1. Full coverage in the Outback

2. No Data Caps

Despite having a great 4G LTE / 5G network in Australia we still have data caps on mobile plans. Home Mobile Broadband plans without data caps do exist, but usage policies prevent use outside of registered premises!

Also, our NBN has been a disaster in many places, and unusably bad.




NBN satellite (aka Sky Muster) is pretty solid and speed is generally ok but the latency is a killer and makes it useless for anything interactive. Fine for the target audience web browsing and streaming videos.


Sky Muster!

I always forget about that! :-)

Be interesting to see which way and how fast the NBN updates to FTTP happen now Labour is back in power!




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