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And all of that adds to maybe 100k customers. What next? Especially for a service that has scale bandwidth everywhere across the world, it increase it in one sp

And all of that adds to maybe 100k customers. What next? Especially for a service that has scale bandwidth everywhere across the world, it increase it in one spot (or add 5G tower there, which you can just do, without this whole “10k satellites that have to be replaced every few years” business). I’m not saying there’s no market. But it’s very limited. Much more limited compared to all the hype it’s getting. I had literally people living in SF telling me how they’ll use it, to stop dealing with Comcast.

panick21_ 4y ago
> And all of that adds to maybe 100k customers. They literally already have far more then that and they have only just started. They don't even have full coverage yet and have only just launched their mobile products and only just started their shipping products. Airplane and shipping industry isn't even really onboard yet, there is a huge costumer base there. The military, NASA and many other government organizations, has lots of uses for it as well. And that goes for other nations equivalence of those organizations as well (except maybe military depending on US policy on that). > “10k satellites that have to be replaced every few years” business Every generation the sats will get vastly better thus increasing the capacity and/or decreasing the price. At the same time the rocket technology gets vastly better decreasing the price considerably. This first iteration is by far the most expensive one.
zizee 4y ago
> And all of that adds to maybe 100k customers. Those 100k customers are not like the others. Commercial, government, and military customers will pay FAR more per connection than an everyday customer.
- oceanplexian 4y ago
  This isn’t even getting into backhaul, assuming the laser links work out. There are financial firms that would hand over untold stacks of cash for even a few ms of performance improvement between say, London and NYC. And Starlink can do that between all sorts of distant city pairs.
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panick21_ 4y ago

> And all of that adds to maybe 100k customers. They literally already have far more then that and they have only just started. They don't even have full coverage yet and have only just launched their mobile products and only just started their shipping products. Airplane and shipping industry isn't even really onboard yet, there is a huge costumer base there. The military, NASA and many other government organizations, has lots of uses for it as well. And that goes for other nations equivalence of those organizations as well (except maybe military depending on US policy on that). > “10k satellites that have to be replaced every few years” business Every generation the sats will get vastly better thus increasing the capacity and/or decreasing the price. At the same time the rocket technology gets vastly better decreasing the price considerably. This first iteration is by far the most expensive one.

zizee 4y ago

> And all of that adds to maybe 100k customers. Those 100k customers are not like the others. Commercial, government, and military customers will pay FAR more per connection than an everyday customer.

oceanplexian 4y ago
This isn’t even getting into backhaul, assuming the laser links work out. There are financial firms that would hand over untold stacks of cash for even a few ms of performance improvement between say, London and NYC. And Starlink can do that between all sorts of distant city pairs.

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