How Starlink Satellites Could Affect IoT | Link Labs

Do you remember when every housetop used to have a dish pointing into the sky to receive internet from satellites? They are not as popular as they used to be. That’s because most people have begun to consume media much differently. Today, the average consumer is more interested in data. Most of that data comes from underground cables. Although internet delivered via ground-laid fiber-optical cable offers upload and download speeds faster than satellite, there is nothing fast about deploying the infrastructure necessary to get fiber to homes. Over half the planet does not have access to cables that provide reliable broadband.