Not in rural Kentucky. Starlink just became available in the last year. They don't expect to have fiber at my address until 2026. It literally stops a mile on both sides of me. 🤷♂️🤦 I may check out that French company that just gave the Ukrainians 40K dishes.
Same here in a very rural area - there are no other options for me that gives me internet that works beyond .04 mbps speeds that data cap after 1 day. I have to work from home and have no other option.
Yea. I'm just a mile or so outside Mammoth Cave Nat. Park... lol no towers or infrastructure for 500,000 acres. It sure is pretty and quiet, though. 🤷♂️🤪
To be fair, if you CAN boycott Starlink, it's because you have other internet options (no T-Mobile and you can opt out of iPhone coverage). The larger issue is places where no broadband exists other than that.
I still say do it, but it's nigh impossible for some.
So yeah... I put some heads together, and unless you can dissuade countries/areas that need Starlink as a broadband lifeline NOT to use it, it's very hard to boycott. If you switch away from carriers that USE Starlink to discourage partnership with them, that's also good.
I'll ask a resident tech genius at my work tomorrow. He loves a good problem. I'll get back to y'all.
As for T-Mobile/Boost/Mint, it looks like they only use it as a roaming add-on, and if someone wants to use it to... sent a message to Ukraine, they can pay $5 extra. Which I'm not doing.
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I still say do it, but it's nigh impossible for some.
We need more options is the answer.
You CAN block Starlink IP addresses, but I'm uncertain how to do that easily. Not an appreciable way to boycott though.
Thank you!
/hard to boycott...
As for T-Mobile/Boost/Mint, it looks like they only use it as a roaming add-on, and if someone wants to use it to... sent a message to Ukraine, they can pay $5 extra. Which I'm not doing.