The deployment cost is even lower when you don’t need to put a tower on the ground, which is the point of this. They can cover the entire U.S. to eliminate coverage gaps using the starlink satellites.
You could mount it on poles.
For remote areas that might still be tens to hundreds of kilometers of poles and fiber just to add coverage to one remote area. Then you move on to the next.
No one wants to do that across all of Alaska or the Australian outback.
We have cellular issues in upstate NY that has plenty of infrastructure. Dark fiber is also practically everywhere
Sure, but there's also cellular issues in the Australian outback and most of Alaska, and there you don't have infrastructure.