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They can and likely will get many millions, perhaps tens of millions of subscribers. This is a build out. Once the build out is complete, it'll be maintenance a
by asadotzler 3y ago
They can and likely will get many millions, perhaps tens of millions of subscribers. This is a build out. Once the build out is complete, it'll be maintenance at lower costs. Starship launching v2 and v3 sats with increased capacity and ever increasing value as a second internet backbone will assure they have more than enough business to keep this all going -- probably better and longer than Comcast can keep it's tens of millions of cable internet users.
- danbruc 3y agoOnce the build out is complete, it'll be maintenance at lower costs. The satellites have a lifetime of about 5 years, so with 12,000 satellites they will need to replace 200, if they go all the way to 42,000 even 700 of them each month, indefinitely. While in some sense this is maintenance it also means building and launching one complete constellation every 5 years. Or they have to increase the lifetime which is at least currently probably mainly limited by the available fuel for station keeping.