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I read the current Starlink system has a limitation where if you move outside of your assigned service "cell", you lose service. Guessing this is still the case
by jtl999 5y ago
I read the current Starlink system has a limitation where if you move outside of your assigned service "cell", you lose service. Guessing this is still the case.
- gjsman-1000 5y agoUnfortunately this is partly due to FCC regulations.
- shmerl 5y agoWhy would FCC add such limitations?
- prepend 5y agoPerhaps because there are subsidies based on providing broadband/fiber service to specific areas.
- joseloyaio 5y agoSurveillance & Monopoly Protection If people stopped using cellphone service for mobile internet they would loose their immense location and surveillance capabilities (gov).
- shmerl 5y agoDo they have authority to impose such limitations? It sounds very overreaching. What makes more sense is probably Starlink trying to prevent uneven network load.
- bryanlarsen 5y agoThe FCCs mandate is to protect the airwaves from interference. Starlink uses shared bands. if the receivers move, tracking down interference is harder.
- shmerl 5y agoWhat about mobile networks which literally do just that? Or they don't use shared bands?
- shaklee3 5y agothis is not really true relative to what OP said. there are fcc regulations for spectral leakage and such, but that's well known and means you can't transmit outside a service area. but that just means you're in another, adjacent service area. it has more to do with the spectral efficiency going down as you move from boresight, so they don't want a capacity loss. fcc has nothing to do with this decision.
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- unityByFreedom 5y agoThat's why there's no FSD too, so I hear.
- markdown 5y agoFCC only manages a small portion of the earths surface. They have no say whatsoever in my part of the world.
- mod 5y agoIf the company you use has a presence in their small portion of the Earth's surface, then they probably have some say so.
- _joel 5y agoEh, really? It's due to needing ground station visibilty for the consumers as there's no intra satellite routing links, I thought and they didn't want to swamp the contention ratio whilst they were in beta? Why would the FCC be stopping this?
- senectus1 5y agoprovided you're happy enough to buy multiple dishes, this fixes that. one account, multiple dishes.