Would you rather buy space broadband from a billionaire, or Communist China?

[Bender]

https://www.theregister.com/2024/08/08/china_qianfan_launch/

[basementcat]

How about both? LEO satellite internet service providers aren’t super reliable yet. Unless there is a Carrington Event, hopefully local and global service outages will be weakly correlated between the two networks.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrington_Event

[wumeow]

Obviously the billionaire and not the state that would kill me if it had the chance.

[darthrupert]

Lousy choice but the billionaire is much better.

[quantified]

Considering who the billionaire is, maybe I'll give the Chinese broadband a look.