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> In a world where people are increasingly living in urban areas, fiber will annihilate satellite internet. Fiber may be way better, but putting a glorified wi
by Schroedingersat 4y ago
> In a world where people are increasingly living in urban areas, fiber will annihilate satellite internet.
Fiber may be way better, but putting a glorified wifi router on top of a million dollars worth of kerosene and stainless steel is a great deal cheaper than digging a 1000km long trench.
There aren't many of them compared to the people in cities, but being able to serve the billion or so people that would have to pay hundreds a month for crappy microwave internet with somewhat less crappy space microwave internet sounds like a the one company he's running that isn't fleecing the taxpayers or investors.
- Ekaros 4y agoIs the population outside areas that could reasonably be served by mobile connections really a billion? A few hundred people around should already be enough for a single tower.
- Schroedingersat 4y agoWell even if you only get 10 million customers you break even in overnight costs on your 60k $1m satellites after 6k each. If starship ever materialises, and after making 20k or so satellites they should get cheaper too. Those hundred people can't dig a particularly long trench or put in more than a few thousand poles for $600,000. Seems to work out unless I'm vastly over estimating the bandwidth of whatever the bottleneck in the constellation is. Plus there's all the people in cities willing to pay extra for low latency.