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This is pretty cool for Internet to remote locations, as an alternative to satellites.
Getting that kind of speed in rural mountain regions where running physical cables is extremely difficult is definitely a huge deal.
It's also worth noting that this stuff is very important outside consumer facing internet. This allows for teleoperation of robots such as remote surgeries, and other kinds of automation where you need high bandwidth and low latency.
This is up there with SSD speeds, meaning I/O bound tooling can now be run on the network with no additional time cost over co-locating compute and data. That's huge.
Ironically, one of the 6G proposals is a megaconstellation of very low earth orbit satellites.
Oh great just what we need more shitty satellites cluttering the night sky
Too late to easily observe space from Earth, too early to cheaply observe space from orbit.
When I was out at Pine Ridge last year we were in a super low light pollution area and when we were watching the meteor shower that comes around every august we saw the line of Starlink satellites and in that moment I wished upon a star that a hypersonic missile would directly hit Elon Musk. Like not even a warhead, just a rod of tungsten hitting him at terminal velocity or more would do it for me.