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Why are you roping Elon into it? Doesn’t SpaceX and other satellite broadband kind of make this map irrelevant?
by bigallen 3y ago
Why are you roping Elon into it? Doesn’t SpaceX and other satellite broadband kind of make this map irrelevant?
- mschuster91 3y ago> Doesn’t SpaceX and other satellite broadband kind of make this map irrelevant? (Not the person you replied to) No, it doesn't. Fundamentally, no matter how many satellites SpaceX shoots up, it's still a geographically shared medium with significantly more latency and lower bandwidth than DSL or direct fiber. It's a stopgap for extremely rural areas that even in a thousand years couldn't recoup the investment of laying fiber, RVs, EMS, the military, ships, planes... but that's it. It can't ever beat a good 1 GBit/s fiber, much less the 10 Gbit/s you can get in some particularly well developed places.