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From a physics point of view if the satellite is visible by both high density areas and low density areas they are both competing for the same bandwidth so if i
by xt00 4y ago
From a physics point of view if the satellite is visible by both high density areas and low density areas they are both competing for the same bandwidth so if it was purely a price increase on if you can see the same satellites as high density areas then this doesn’t make a ton of sense but it seems this is mostly a monetary push to keep attracting rural folks where the economics are better while finding the price elasticity point for city folks who probably have another option but prefer this anyway for some reason. So seems likely there will be more price increases on the city folks if the city areas stay congested. Will be interesting to see where the sweet spot ends up..
- PaulHoule 4y agoIn some sense satellite internet makes the rural/urban challenge of deploying internet worse. If a low orbit constellation is going to serve one person in a random location it has to cover the 70% of Earth that is ocean and probably another 50% of the land that is uninhabitable. All else being equal satellite internet should be priced high enough that people who have a choice don’t choose satellite internet, if you feel that is unfair and too high a price for people who don’t need a choice there has to be differential pricing. Or at the very least charge people in busy grid squares more.