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It would be hard to imagine they don't have a significant advantage in this massive new space with 4 billion or more potential customers. Incredible stuff.
by leesec 7y ago
It would be hard to imagine they don't have a significant advantage in this massive new space with 4 billion or more potential customers.
Incredible stuff.
- new_realist 7y agoMost people live in cities and these satellites can't serve a large number of simultaneous users. Rural and worse that rural are the best applications.
- dgzl 7y ago> best applications That's debatable. Most humanitarian application maybe.
- usaphp 7y agoCould not they have a hub/receiver on a roof of a building which will then distribute the connection to its peers?
- taneq 7y agoYou wouldn't have a Starlink antenna each. You'd have as many Starlink antennas as was reasonable then everyone would use traditional last-mile technologies to connect to them. The available bandwidth sounds reasonably high so it should still result in acceptable speeds unless your population density is bonkers.
- skybrian 7y agoWell, maybe not at the same time? I would guess they'll be limited by bandwidth to fewer subscribers than the large ISP's.