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You can count on the numbers being at least roughly real. But it's not that encouraging: - 1M is less than 1% of Verizon customers. Terrestrial fiber and mmWav
by Zigurd 4y ago
You can count on the numbers being at least roughly real. But it's not that encouraging:
- 1M is less than 1% of Verizon customers. Terrestrial fiber and mmWave FWA will be faster and cheaper.
- Scaling issues are already apparent: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/09/ookla-starlinks-median-us-download-speed-fell-nearly-30mbps-in-q2-2022/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/09/ookla-starlinks-...
- To serve 1M customers, it takes launching about 4500 satellites to get 3500 current working satellites with a lifespan of about 5 years. Everything depends on the next gen satellites completely changing that equation.