blackaeronaut Wrote:Hrm... what about services like telecommunications? Being in space already, the Fen would have direct access to their own satellites - satellites that can be serviced and upgraded regularly and therefore have much longer uptimes and lifetimes than their competitors. Not to mention the simple fact that it doesn't cost Fen much to put a satellite in orbit. The end result would be that Fen can undercut the cost of things like satellite phones, broadband internet, and digital TV by a huge degree.
I think you're missing my point: it doesn't really matter what goods or services Fenspace provides to the 'Danelaw, as long as those goods or services continue to flow, then the mighty free market doesn't care what people think of Fen. This won't make people (at least in the US) think better of Fen, it'll just make them curse Fen harder for "taking are jobs"... while they still use cellphones made with Belt gallium and operating off Fen-serviced satellite networks.
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