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1) hell yes starlinks will be shared by entire remote villages, it happened in the volcano eruption in Tonga. 2) starlink would love the positive press of thir
by AtlasBarfed 4y ago
1) hell yes starlinks will be shared by entire remote villages, it happened in the volcano eruption in Tonga.
2) starlink would love the positive press of third world connectivity enablement
3) remember, starlink is a low-flying satellite flotilla. So the satellites over remote expansive areas aren't being used as much, and so revenue from central africa can be priced differently to get whatever you can out of the geographic areas the satellites fly over.
Revenue is revenue, even if it's only 10% of your US revenue. As you say, the goal will be to get revenue for the time the satellite is aloft. If you get a million/day while it passes over the US, then 100,000/day as it passes over South America, well, that's still money.
Africa is 1.2 billion people, South America is 422 million, the satellites fly over regardless. 1.6 billion people is a lot of potential revenue, even if third world.
- ncmncm 4y agoStarlink is limited in how much attention they can devote to such customization, and even by how complicated their billing and payment systems would get. So picking up those subscribers, even where substantial money is in principle on the table, will necessarily lag far behind.
- panick21_ 4y agoIts really not that complicated. Sure its some software you have to make, but lets not pretend this is some incredibly complex thing. And they don't have to pick all subscribes now, they just need to continually grow subscribers over the next couple of years and add 1 country after the other. Exactly as they have been doing so far. They don't have enough terminals anyway.