SpaceX - Satellite internet starting 2019

2oldman wrote:
The article says the sats will be in low-earth orbit.

So Elon is planning to one-up the Iridium constellation?

I still don't get it, this is going to cost him hundreds of billions and decades of work to build. Why not throw that war chest against AT&T and Comcast who own millions of miles on unlit fiber crisscrossing the Nation. Lobby the government to federalize utility right of way access, instead of making every county, township and village a special snowflake who gets to control the monopoly of their road-side shoulders.

As rich as Google is, even they are backing down on the fight... They've massively scaled back their efforts to deploy broadband in part because the local government stranglehold on right of way access.