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I imagine they mean GB/s of capacity, not per GB.
by foota 6y ago
I imagine they mean GB/s of capacity, not per GB.
- grecy 6y agoThis was back in ~2014, though last I looked into it significant amounts of data from a sat is still many thousands of dollars per GB. (NOT GB/s)
- ac29 6y agoHome based satellite internet wouldnt be viable if it cost thousands of dollars per GB. There are low-volume satellite services that do have a pretty high charge per megabyte, but thats because they are intended for applications that only need a few dozen KB per day or so.
- foota 6y agoFwiw I don't buy this. A satellite specced for a gig and being used at say 1/16 capacity (to account for orbit) would make say 100 dollars a second. That's nearly 9 million a day, no way do satellite providers make that much, or there would be a lot more supply.