[rjf72]

I'm curious why people aren't seeing China as, at least potentially, a very big customer. They have hundreds of millions of people with limited to no internet access, in spite of a rapidly increasing level of national wealth. Their government could change that, instantly, with a check.

Not that I'm in favor of a censored internet but it's a reality of China and it would perhaps work even better with something like the Starlink. Satellite internet relies on ground stations to know what to beam out on requests. China would operate their own regional ground stations resulting in a complete centralization of all access from China.

Only reason I see this not happening is if China chose to develop their own similar solution, which is perhaps a real possibility.

[gpm]

I don't see China as a potential customer because I don't see the CPC allowing any company not under their control to run China's telecommunications infrastructure. Especially not a company under US control.