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Starlink's problem is going to be capacity. Price it reasonably and everyone wants on - dial up modem will be speedy by comparison. Price it where you balance
by EricE 5y ago
Starlink's problem is going to be capacity. Price it reasonably and everyone wants on - dial up modem will be speedy by comparison. Price it where you balance supply and demand and you don't get to play up the humanitarian universal access story.
Fun times :)
- linsomniac 5y agoCitation for the capacity problem? I'm skeptical because this sounds a lot like the speculation around DSL when it rolled out in my city back in 1997 (IIRC), and the "crosstalk killing throughput of the entire cable bundle" issues never seemed to come about. The real killer to the telco behind DSL seemed to be that they would never deploy DSLAMs in remote terminal boxes, because they didn't want CLECs to come in with their own DSLAMs to serve the rural areas, so if you weren't a couple miles from the fairly rare Central Offices, you were limited to 128Kbps IDSL (ISDN data-only) service. Then the just sat on their copper infrastructure while the world moved on past them with terrestrial wireless and cable modems. Their last gasp was a million dollars spent on advertising to oppose the municipal fiber network, along with the cable company, but the city is installing those lines as we speak, and it's glorious!
- aantix 5y agoIsn't the speed of light their only constraint?
- BelenusMordred 5y agoGiven this thread is about rural areas that's not really an issue. Believe they have mentioned it being an issue in dense cities initially at least.