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> Any thoughts on why this would not make sense aside from whatever Starlink’s biases & business objectives are?

I suspect the market here is not individuals that want to browse YouTube and check their email.

Market 1: large multi person vessels like cruise ships. At any time someone wants to use the internet, and the ship can 'sublet' out a 2Mbit subset on an time basis.

Market 2: large transport vessels where the owners want a lot of data on what's going on for security reasons. $5k/month and you can have trusted security people keeping a watch over a few dozen cameras 24/7, so you know the crew is doing they job. A bit dystopian but I'd bet there's a market for it.



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