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I think time will be very expensive on them because while over the ocean they'll be dedicated to the more lucrative commercial maritime and the hypothetical HFT
by rtkwe 4y ago
I think time will be very expensive on them because while over the ocean they'll be dedicated to the more lucrative commercial maritime and the hypothetical HFT low latency routing products. While the satellites are over land they'll be largely free to do whatever they want with the time with their currently announced plans but making hops across the ocean the commercial contracts are going to get top priority because they'll expect it at 5k/month. And as they bring more things on that require the laser links the time is just going to get more precious and by extension expensive.
- shkkmo 4y agoI think there is very good reason to believe that the limits of the starlink network are ingress/egress and will remain that way due to spectrum availability/licensing (among other reasons). I absolutely believe that commercial traffic will get priotized, but I highly doubt that maritime traffic will be capable of saturating an intersatelite connection that is designed to provide a backbone for land areas with higher levels of population density.