Terrestrial competition is entirely possible. Entrenched players haven't
served those populations because those populations have had no competitive
alternative.
Expect telcos to suddenly find various kinds of expansion capability,
similar to the gigabit switch in recent memory.
On Wednesday, July 14, 2021, Stephen Daniel <swd@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
He has 0.5M people signed up so far, about a tenth of those installed.Reviews are mostly quite positive. 50.5M * 100 * 12 is $600M/year.
Wisp, geosync satellite, and DSL over copper simply do not compare. Ifyou live out of reach of coax or fiber then you live with really crappy
On Wed, Jul 14, 2021 at 9:42 AM Rand Simberg <simberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
say that it's a huge step up from anything else available in their area.
Yes, that's why Elon went to LEO. The people I know who use the service
rocket launch one day) that the biggest issue with “traditional” (as is,
On 7/14/21 4:15 AM, Troy Prideaux wrote:
I was under the impression (from a conversation on the way to a HPR
On Behalf Of Matthew JL
Troy
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I find it hard to believe that, like Tesla is for cars, Starlink will be
but the satellite internet market is stagnant at best. Post-COVID
Starlink may wind up being the best satellite internet service there is,
and
Matt L.
On Wed, Jul 14, 2021 at 2:44 AM J Farmer <jfarmer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 7/14/2021 2:08 AM, Uwe Klein wrote:
Am 14.07.21 um 06:47 schrieb Keith and Mary Stormo:
Matt,
Spacex Starlink satellite system is planing about 20,000 satellites
currently launch 60 per Falcon 9 at a wholesale cost of about $40Systems like Starlink just add so much more space junk.
million each. 20,000 / 60 = 333 launches x $40 million = 13.3 Billion
dollars for launching them in the next 5-8 years. This is a money
making venture using the Falcon 9.
The Starship can carry about 500 of the satellites
( trajectory control changes the problem vector slightly..
potentially to the worse.)
I don't see much advantage in adding more junk faster.
Uwe
You see it as space junk because you're living in the middle of a
bandwidth dense area.
To my cousin who lives in the middle of the backside of nowhere? It's a
chance to have decent _voice_ communications as well as video and and
maybe real usable Internet.
To my friend who lives on a small sailboat cruising around the SE
Pacific? It's a chance to get weather and charts downloaded at some
rate greater that a few kilobits/sec on a satellite data phone link.
To someone in the middle of ...
Heck if you don't get the reasons, then listing more and more won't
change your mind.
Maybe Starlink isn't a perfect solution to high bandwidth global
communication, but it is one available _now_, and it will do until we
find a better one.
John