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2023-05-24 14:03:14 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 227F6F86664815C7E49527E555C9752B083946DC1E99F398471C799BD9B38DFA
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While obvious that the existence of undersea cables doesn't disprove satellites, the latency from cable to satellite is drastically higher with satellite, wired is cheaper for consumers and companies (wired get more data/cheaper plans) If not wanting to search: https://news.viasat.com/blog/satellite-internet/satellite-internet-latency-whats-the-big-deal#:~:text=A%20cable%20internet%20signal%2C%20for,orbit%20might%20be%20600%20ms. https://orhanergun.net/why-submarine-cable-why-not-satellite#:~:text=Although%20I%20didn%27t%20talk,technology%20which%20uses%20RF%20spectrum).
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