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As someone who has looked extensively into this for marine use I think it’s highly unlikely this is Iridium. Standard Iridium is 2400 baud (no I did not leave o
by davidjade 5y ago
As someone who has looked extensively into this for marine use I think it’s highly unlikely this is Iridium. Standard Iridium is 2400 baud (no I did not leave out any zeros). Their new Certus service is much faster but the cost is $1600/mo for 1gb of service.
- pplante 5y agoDoes Starlink work for this application?
- dreamcompiler 5y agoIn principle it could but AFAIK Starlink is restricting installations to fixed land-based applications for now because they want a predictable number of customers in each satellite footprint. I expect they will extend it to marine applications in the future. Cruise ships in the near future (assuming cruise ships ever come back after COVID) will all have some kind of high-bandwidth LEO satellite internet connectivity.
- unixhero 5y agoCruise ships are back, and the business is booming with some fully booked ships. Vaccine passports and require a PCR plus quick test before departure for all crew and passengers should do the trick. Buut it's all a balance, see comments here for instance https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/28/travel/cruise-industry-comeback.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/28/travel/cruise-industry-co...
- Thlom 5y agoIt will only work for coastal vessels until they get the sat-to-sat thing working. I know Elon talked about bouncing the signal off base stations on barges in the middle of the ocean, but not sure if that would be reliable enough.
- dzhiurgis 5y agoI'd guess they gonna charge good premium for offering "mobile" service.
- hallway_monitor 5y agoSounds about right, charge people a couple dollars per minute and you can make a profit even paying 1600/gb. 2400bps is plenty fast for texting and coincidentally was the speed of my first modem!