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There were recently two simulations done on possible latencies based on the FCC filings. You can find the video simulations in the links at the bottom of this p
by TrueDuality 8y ago
There were recently two simulations done on possible latencies based on the FCC filings. You can find the video simulations in the links at the bottom of this post.
You can see international links that have latencies lower than the existing internet by a significant margin.
Unfortunately neither of those simulations take into account that the first iteration has been changed to only use radio and no laser links.
[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdKNCBrkZQ4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdKNCBrkZQ4
[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEIUdMiColU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEIUdMiColU
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- avar 8y agoThe first video mentions at 6m55s[1] that as part of the third phase they're deploying satellites in high inclination orbits, among other reasons to provide coverage for Alaska, since this is an FCC requirement. I wonder if it's exclusively because of that reason, and if so that the reason international customers will enjoy coverage at high northern and southern latitudes is because of the accident of history that the US ended up acquiring Alaska, and that there's some FCC regulation that says you need to provide coverage for all 50 states. 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdKNCBrkZQ4#t=6m55s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdKNCBrkZQ4#t=6m55s