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High speed bandwidth connecting remote areas will have a big impact. Government wants it for ships, forest lookout towers, epa to watch waters and animals. Als
by IronWolve 4y ago
High speed bandwidth connecting remote areas will have a big impact. Government wants it for ships, forest lookout towers, epa to watch waters and animals.
Also remote cell sites can be provided with uplinks via starlink. My parents small town has 1 tower that provides everything from limited internet, cable and cell service via microwave. The community center only has internet because of it.
Dialup is almost dead everywhere, and basically useless on modern websites.
Millions of americans only have cell service as their only internet, expensive and bandwidth capped. I replaced my folks hotspot with starlink, its been great for them and when I work from their home. Teams works fine over it.
I'd also expect comcast coverage zones that exclude a few houses will be using it. And areas lacking DSL service.
What I'm looking forward to is when sats have sat to sat communications to route traffic around the world.
Good times.
- kbaker 4y agoNot only those good times, but these V2 satellites will enable direct-to-satellite LTE connectivity on T-mobile, using existing cell phones. Cell coverage anywhere you can see the sky! A huge benefit to safety in rural and other areas without existing cell coverage. https://www.shacknews.com/article/132035/spacex-tmobile-starlink-v2 https://www.shacknews.com/article/132035/spacex-tmobile-star...
- londons_explore 4y agoV2 has this functionality, but v2 mini doesn't seem to have the ability to do that.