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This will shake up a lot of things in the sattelite market. It will take a lot of marketshare from satellite trackers like inreach. Also living in a remote are
by joshuamoes 4y ago
This will shake up a lot of things in the sattelite market.
It will take a lot of marketshare from satellite trackers like inreach.
Also living in a remote area, and being familiar with the existing tracking solutions for transport this could be a lot cheaper per asset. Also remote sensor locations. Anything low bitrate.
- toomuchtodo 4y agoIridium in shambles.
- ta988 4y agoI would still trust iridium more for a life or death situation than T-Mobile...
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- joshuamoes 4y agoThe bigger thing would be availability. I have an inreach and use it probably bi-weekly, however most people cannot justify the 400$ device and subscription, this would be included
- joshuamoes 4y agoI'm curious what ideas are going around the boardroom table right now.
- lxgr 4y agoIt's going to be quite a while before Starlink and the other new solutions will be certified for safety of life, government/military use etc. For example, Iridium only got GMDSS/SOLAS certified in 2020 – before that, Inmarsat was the only approved maritime (two-way) satellite safety provider for several decades.
- nonethewiser 4y agoGood
- carabiner 4y agoFUCK yes. Can't wait for the Inreach to drop from $400 to $100.
- kylehotchkiss 4y agoThat’s probably so low they won’t be able to launch anything to replace the live sats once they hit end of life
- carabiner 4y agoIridium is already subsidized by the US govt, isn't it? The original company failed as a profitable venture.
- bpodgursky 4y agoYeah but the US gov is VERY interested in Starlink now after seeing how effective it has been in Ukraine (and how quick to deploy). Pretty likely they're going to shift to the winning horse.
- panick21_ 4y agoThe US govt will have its fingers in all internet constellations