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Here comes Spacex Starlink + bezos copycat company with better then cable latency :)

• gnode 7y ago
  They're unlikely to be competitive on capacity though. I expect, in most cases, these satellites would relay you to a ground-based base station with as few satellite hops as possible.
  • maxdo 7y ago
    With every launch, SpaceX will add about a terabit of “usable capacity,” Musk said, and two to three terabits overall. You probably right. But all those satellites that are above the ocean at the moment they can be used to transmit data over sea's or between small islands. In this way it will compete with optics. Think of countries like Indonesia.
    • jauer 7y ago
      Two to three Tbps aggregate won't change much except maybe for islands that are currently dependent on VSAT.