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A European Starlink rival’s shares skyrocketed 390% in a week — here’s why (www.cnbc.com)
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[–] Cyber@feddit.uk 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

You'd need signal boosters at regular intervals, which need power... so now you're running multiple cables.

But you can't run them too close together as the power will induce noise in the data cable.

And after a long distance even the power needs boosting.

And to protect the cables, you'd need to bury them or put them on poles. Separately.

At a certain point, cable becomes the expensive option...

[–] sasquatch7704@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Usually fiber is used between cities and in cities and copper is for the "last mile". Usually there is a switching box for the street / building complex