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I'm sure it will get to 20M paying customers, eventually. But most of the inhabited planet is well served by terrestrial 4G/LTE. And the places that don't have
by yardie 3y ago
I'm sure it will get to 20M paying customers, eventually. But most of the inhabited planet is well served by terrestrial 4G/LTE. And the places that don't have terrestrial mobile service are also largely unpopulated. It's great for ships, but that's still in the 100k range. The Russia/Ukraine war has proved its effectiveness. But that is still just 1000s of terminals.
In every instance where Starlink could be more usable than terrestrial we're talking a few million at most.
- lukev 3y agoAlso, Musk yanking the plug on an active operation does not bode well for that sort of use case.
- dsabanin 3y agoThat can be solved by legislation if necessary.
- rlt 3y agoExcept that’s not what happened. Starlink was not active in Crimea at the time because the US had sanctions in Crimea. He got a request from the Ukrainian government. He has stated if he got a request from the US government he would have activated it.
- inemesitaffia 3y ago[dead]
- serf 3y ago2500+250/mo is steep for the marine use device , especially when a lot of emergency-use data equivalents will charge you by the byte -- which makes the devices make good sense to have aboard but never used. I know of a lot of mariners that would probably bite at Starlink if an equivalent pay-as-you-need service was offered,even with the pricey equipment.
- inemesitaffia 3y agoStarlink has what you speak of and any price StarLink offers is cheaper per KB regardless
- spikels 3y agoThere are “more than 100,000” Starlink terminals in Ukraine according to the new Musk bio.
- jfengel 3y agoWhat's the bandwidth on 4G? Not a telecomms engineer, but data service can be very pricey, so I assumed it was kind of a limited resource.