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Did the arguement stem from the problems of sharing bandwidth due to free space broadcast (instead of wires where everyone can re-use the same bandwidth)? Because, if so, the spot beams for the Starlink sats down to the ground terminal are only ~15 km in diameter. The uplink back to the sats may be a bit more constrained and won't scale. But downstream should be fine.


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