Rural Broadband’s Starlink Dependency: The Missing Context

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WombatNET’s Alex Stewart expands on his 2nd Jun Herald NOW interview: infrastructure dependency stacking, spectrum constraints on local WISPs, and the TDL funding question.

Alex Stewart: Why Rural Connectivity Faces a Crisis (And What I Told Parliament)

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In 2019, I visited a rural community that had been begging for better access to connectivity for years. The big telcos had looked at the area, done the math on how many customers they could sign up, and walked away. The community was told they’d need to raise a few hundred thousand dollars themselves before […]