CEO of T-Mobile thinks the threat from Starlink has been exaggerated. He questioned the basic premise of the SpaceX pitch

Srini Gopalan, CEO of T-Mobile, said satellite connectivity will stay complementary to terrestrial networks. It will not replace them. "You've got to ask the question of 'What is the gap in the market that they're looking to serve?’. Why would a customer buy a new cellular service? Where do they go? What's their differentiation? It's clearly not having a broad network." Gopalan focused his pushback on capacity. One satellite covers a large area, and every user in that area shares the same bandwidth. A satellite over a rural county might serve a few hundred people. Put that same satellite over a major city, and millions of people are competing for the same signal. Cities need dense wireless infrastructure for this reason. Thousands of towers and small cells, each serving a small area, stack up to handle millions of simultaneous connections. Gopalan's argument is that satellite technology serves a specific, narrow purpose. It fills dead zones where towers do not exist. It does not compete with what T-Mobile, Verizon, and AT&T offer in cities, suburbs, and most places where Americans spend most of their time. He pointed to T-Mobile's T-Satellite service, which runs on Starlink. The service reaches rural areas and national parks where T-Mobile does not have towers. Gopalan said it has been useful, but usage came in lower than T-Mobile originally expected. https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/articles/t-mobiles-ceo-just-dismantled-090300633.html