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The latency numbers are useful because lots of people, including the FCC, doubted the ability to achieve sub-100ms latencies at all. See https://www.cnet.com/ne
by wahern 6y ago
The latency numbers are useful because lots of people, including the FCC, doubted the ability to achieve sub-100ms latencies at all. See https://www.cnet.com/news/fcc-has-serious-doubts-about-spacexs-broadband-service/ https://www.cnet.com/news/fcc-has-serious-doubts-about-space...
- mtgx 6y agoAnd I believe they promised much lower than that with laser links (although only the Polar North satellites will use those for now).
- ogre_codes 6y agoOh yeah, that is probably the one piece of this which is useful.
- new_realist 6y ago10K users, one ten users per launched satellite, is not "mass market" as defined by the FCC. Latency issues are queuing issues at the scale (and thus load) of users needed to achieve breakeven.