Originally Posted by
eglnyt
It is a fact of life that in any country the Infrastructure becomes weaker the further you get from the main centres of business. Most Western states rely on separate Telecom Suppliers to provide their underlying ATC Infrastructure and those suppliers are not going to run two links if they can't make a return on both of them. There are certainly parts of the UK where you'll be lucky to get one network connection let alone two. MIcrowave links have been used in the past for inaccessible areas but they are expensive and not very reliable in the sort of wet cold weather seen in Northern Europe. Longer term Starlink and its competitors might provide a solution to this problem.
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Not longer term, this resilience issue could be addressed right now.
Every significant point in their network could have a Starlink dish and/or a OneWeb dish and use it to provide a backup channel. The costs would be 'petty cash' compared to their current annual spend.
Such a solution could be put in operation in a few days for some sites to a few months for the more difficult to access places.
Of course, this isn't "the way we do things" - not just in the UK and Norway, but all over the world - so there will often be great organisational resistance to such a radical change.