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Very cool visualization, but am I seeing correctly that Starlink only covers the southern half of Canada? I guess that would still mean a lot of potential users
by blacksmith_tb 6y ago
Very cool visualization, but am I seeing correctly that Starlink only covers the southern half of Canada? I guess that would still mean a lot of potential users, but also most of the major cities, which are already wired up?
- holyDictionary 6y agoI'm not completely sure but I believe that area has at least 97% of the population of Canada.
- holyDictionary 6y agoThere's a slider to choose the area of the circle of each satellite, so maybe mine are just way too big.
- gpm 6y agoThis is true, but practically no one lives in the northern half so no one cares. There's also a second stage that will cover the poles (they're required by the us government to get Alaska iirc), so eventually it will cover all of it.
- Reason077 6y ago> "practically no one lives in the northern half so no one cares." I have friends who live in Iqaluit, Nunavut. It's a nice place to live with a cool community, but everything there is very expensive, including internet service. How about $399/month for 5 Mbps service, capped at 55 GB? And that's with the resident's discount! If Starlink were available here it would be an absolute game changer. https://www.qiniq.com/internet/ https://www.qiniq.com/internet/
- gpm 6y agoYa, but it's like them and one other family :p Seriously though, the population of Nunavut is roughly 40k. I guess that 90% of them are potential customers so maybe I shouldn't dismiss them too early, but you can see why I think SpaceX is right to consider them (and the other northern areas) lower priority.