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I'm not a rich white guy, so if I work on this, what kind of problem is it then?

• notyourday 8y ago
  If you fund someone who works on internet over satellites project you are working on the rich white guy problem -- the rest do not care if internet comes via satellites -- they just want internet. But digging trenches and laying fiber is not sexy enough for a rich white guy -- at least definitely not as sexy as say "I have a constellation of 800 satellites that deliver Internet!"
  • narak 8y ago
    https://www.isro.gov.in/pslv-c37-cartosat-2-series-satellite/isro-nano-satellites https://www.isro.gov.in/pslv-c37-cartosat-2-series-satellite... What about these guys? So you think digging tens of millions of miles of fiber trenches to bring gigabit internet to everyone is a more capex efficient solution than a few hundred nano-satellites in LEO blanketing the earth with connectivity? It will be low bandwidth but enough for farmers (what most people in the world do) to check weather, crop yield predictions, and market spot prices, or do remote banking from their village, or check medical information.
    • notyourday 8y ago
      Yes, it will be much more efficient.
  • icebraining 8y ago
    Good luck digging trenches to connect all 17 000 islands in Indonesia to the Internet.
    • notyourday 8y ago
      Good luck getting people on those islands behind the birds able to afford to pay even pennies for that internet. Catskills, NY, however...