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Satellite internet essentially means that you have to share one cellphone tower with your entire district. I don't see how this can be sustainable for anything
by fsh 4y ago
Satellite internet essentially means that you have to share one cellphone tower with your entire district. I don't see how this can be sustainable for anything but the most rural areas.
- jonathankoren 4y agoWell, why would anyone in an urban area need something Starlink, when there are already plenty of cheap and reliable alternatives, including alternatives at higher bandwidths? The problem with building your company around rural internet is that there just aren’t that many people to spread the cost around, thus whatever the alternative is very expensive.
- fsh 4y agoAccording to the article, the system is alreay overloaded in rural Kansas.
- jonathankoren 4y agoWhat does the rural area have to do with starlink’s competitiveness in the urban environment?
- sethammons 4y agoThey are responding to your second paragraph
- noncoml 4y ago> when there are already plenty of cheap and reliable alternatives, including alternatives at higher bandwidths That’s not true even in California. Plenty of small town where the only alternative is line of sight wireless internet.
- jonathankoren 4y agoThat’s a rural town. I explicitly said “urban”.
- noncoml 4y agoOh.. I must have missed it. Sorry But yeah, I totally agree with your points
- lazide 4y agoStarlink has more than enough customers picking up rural users. Urban is not their primary (or secondary) use case.
- jonathankoren 4y agoI see that my comment has revealed that many people don't bother to read for comprehension before responding. My comment was that no matter how many rural customers you get, there just isn't enough people to make the per customer cost cheap, simply because the denominator is so small. Further more, Starlink et al. can never grow the pie (i.e. increase the denominator) because no one in an urban environment wants it. My god. This isn't even a controversial statement, yet... woosh!
- BurningFrog 4y agoI'm not sure what you've misunderstood, but that's not at all how this works. There is room in space for near infinite number of Starlink satellites.