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That's unfair to the millions of Americans living in rural areas having to cope with current slow speeds. Don't you want the world more connected? The problem
by s_y_n_t_a_x 8y ago
That's unfair to the millions of Americans living in rural areas having to cope with current slow speeds. Don't you want the world more connected?
The problem with the current scenario is ISPs and wireless providers won't run lines or stand up towers for a low populated area. They know they won't ever make the money back for the project. With low orbit satellites this problem is solved. Would you rather those people live in the past just because they don't choose to live in the city?
- shaklee3 8y agoThere are existing high speed satellite services.
- jagger27 8y agoLatency matters. LEO gives us that.
- shaklee3 8y agoIt does for some things, and not for others. Streaming and web browsing hardly have a difference.
- s_y_n_t_a_x 8y agoThe caps, bandwidth, and latency are all awful for current solutions.
- shaklee3 8y agoThey will be the same for SpaceX. What makes you think otherwise? Their constellation will not start out anywhere near the max capacity they've stated.