What say you, nanog re: Starlink vs 5G?

Fri Jun 24 01:44:44 UTC 2022

It appears that Eric Kuhnke <eric.kuhnke at gmail.com> said:
>Adding a terrestrial transmitter source mounted on towers and with CPEs
>that stomps on the same frequencies as the last 20 years of existing two
>way VSAT terminals throughout the US seems like a bad idea. Even if you
>ignore the existence of Starlink, there's a myriad of low bandwidth but
>critical SCADA systems out there and remote locations on ku-band two way
>geostationary terminals right now.

I think the original thought was that the satellite service would be used in
rural areas and 5G in cities so there'd be geographic separation, but Starlink
is selling service all over the place.