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Musk’s Starlink Eyes Buying Boost Mobile In Doomed Bid To Dominate Smartphones

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Musk’s Starlink Eyes Buying Boost Mobile In Doomed Bid To Dominate Smartphones
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One cornerstone of Elon Musk’s fraud-packed SpaceX IPO prospectus includes the claim that they’ll extremely quickly (as in a year or two) boost Starlink subscriber totals from 13 million to something closer to 300 million. Given the network’s congestion problems and physics constraints, that’s simply not realistic. Also: more users means even greater capacity problems […]

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