• daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    7 days ago

    Sparsely populated parts of Spain have ~90% fiber coverage and growing…

    It’s not that difficult. Same we got electricity and phone to those places. It’s just another cable.

    We can have 5g as redundancy.

    For invasion prevention purposes traditional internet connection seems enough to me.

    Idk, i don’t like looking up at night and seeing so many satellites. Night sky used to be beautiful.

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      7 days ago

      Population wise yes,area coverage wise no. How do you think the 5G towers (who you need more due to smaller cell sizes) are connected? 5G/LTE offers zero redundancy - as shown in various disaster scenario.

      And how do you fix a traditional internet connection to a drone, a mobile command post (using 5G/LTE for that is a VERY bad idea as these are far easier to detect than SATCOM), etc.?

      As I said: I am also not happy how this is achieved and wish we had a better option. But we have basically three choices: a) we buy Elmo’s stuff and might get fucked whenever he likes. Not good,has cost lives in the Ukraine. b) we say “sorry folks,a clear night sky is more important than your live/health” to the people that will die or get injured due to that. Because let’s face it,in disaster management it’s a game changer at the moment(And it comes to that, that’s sadly a given, even without a war like scenario) C) we build our own network. This is of course oversimplified,but in the end it pretty much comes down to these choices.