I was referring to non satellite access. Starlink could appear to be a standard ISP with ground based router plugging into standard broadband cable. They would only leverage their own system over long distances where the Starlink satellites are in minimal use such as over oceans. This would save the cost of using under ocean cables.
Huh? So you want them to run a cable to every house in addition to having a dish? (The dish can't talk directly to a ground station, it has to bounce off a satellite.)
No, maybe USA is different. I can change my ISP (fibre optic cable) next month without any infrastructure impact. Starlink can operate in the UK as a normal ISP such as Virgin, Now, Vodafone etc.
Yeah, here in the US the ISP owns the cable all the way to the customer. There is no shared infrastructure. In general a given house only has two choices for non-wireless Internet: The cable TV provider or the phone service provider that has the monopoly in their area.
I think there is money to be made somewhere here but maybe not worth the hassle. Customers gain because they get access to the satellites transferring their data over the oceans. Faster and presumably cheaper.
Definitely not faster than current fiber optics that most urban areas already have.
Sure, any application that can benefit from more bandwidth would (though it may stretch the term "gateway"). I could see a fleet group aggregating their data through a central uplink ship.
