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		oh_sigh on Sept 25, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Saint Helena Island Communications Does a monopoly make sense here? Pre starlink, there was probably a huge cost to bring internet to the island, and those doing so wanted to have some form of protection in order to confidently invest the capital to do so.

lxgr on Sept 25, 2023 [–]

Yeah, I could totally imagine some long-term bandwidth lease funding the launch of a geostationary satellite.

But enforcing that monopoly against private users, i.e. not resellers/ISPs, seems somewhat extreme.

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