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adev_today at 7:18 PM0 repliesview on HN

> I get what you're saying, but poor people want cheap internet/phone connectivity.

Nope. Starlink is not a tool for poor people. It's first and foremost a tool for middle class living in rural area with poor connectivity.

As a comparison, it is estimated to that there is around 198M people in Nigeria with a Mobile phone connectivity. Compared around 67K Starlink users.

Mobile being around 2-3x cheaper than Starlink there (even without considering the hardware), it remains an upper middle class privilege.