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I believe that is the case. They have been limiting regional sales to what they believe they can support within that cell.

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Will that be less of an issue when a larger portion of their satellite fleet have laser interconnects? I think I read somewhere that the required ground stations are a limitation of the initial launches without laser connections...

Even if ground stations are a bottleneck now, ultimately each cell is served by one satellite and each satellite has finite capacity.

Yes.

Plus they'll launch more satellites, build more ground stations, improve the software and potentially also improve the antennas so that they can get more real bandwidth from the same available spectrum.

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