I have heard wildly differing estimates of the potential bandwidth Starlink will offer to individual consumers, at what prices, and how efficient/effective their mesh networking and ground station strategy will be. I'm taking a wait and see attitude, but it would be very cool if they actually came up with a telecom killer.
I don't think the purpose is to battle fiber and copper being laid on the ground. There are a lot of places where that is too expensive too do or the situation is not politically stable enough to do so.
Land-based solutions are going to be cheaper and faster for many situations and people, but this gives us another tool to expand connectivity.
I’m expecting it to start as a service for rural subscribers and maybe people who travel? I tried to calculate it at one point and got something like 250/mo for 25-100mb/s, iirc. No claims on accuracy though.
