Starlink fixes pain points and creates new onesWhile mobile networks cover roughly 98 percent of New Zealand’s population, they only reach about 50 percent of the landmass. Shahzad says the promise of directtodevice is ultimately constrained by the same capacity limits that govern terrestrial mobile networks. Competition for mobile networksSatellite operators increasingly target mobile networks, initially as partners extending coverage but ultimately as potential competitors. That threatens both the traditional mobile network operators and the fixed wireless broadband service providers who use mobile infrastructure. It’s a wholesale network-based precision timing service, built with Nokia on Chorus’ fibre network.