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ok but that just makes Starlink even more unprofitable, as now you're limited by the number of customers.

The moment these people incorporate into a village, it becomes more profitable to build a fiber connection. Fiber will eventually get to Ecuador.

Starlink was never supposed to be for anyone that can have fibre.

There are billions of potential customers.

lol no. There are probably 50-100 million potential customers. The rural farmer in India isn't going to buy Starlink.

Every analyst ever said cell phones wouldn’t take off across Africa because there isn’t enough money.

They were all completely wrong.

Since we're talking about something completely different, what about food? Did every analyst predict people would want food?

A limited total addressable market doesn't necessarily have anything to do with profit potential.