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I've become very skeptical of Musk's companies frankly, so I'm not sure there is a real advantage here, from a business point of view. Would rather say it's a s
by TheAlchemist 3y ago
I've become very skeptical of Musk's companies frankly, so I'm not sure there is a real advantage here, from a business point of view. Would rather say it's a slightly red flag actually (to be very dependent on a single customer, and this customer being part of the same company).
- JumpCrisscross 3y ago> not sure there is a real advantage here, from a business point of view You don’t see the advantage of replicating AT&T and Verizon’s non-urban tower advantage from space [1]? In-flight wi-fi alone is a $15 going on $40bn market [2]. To say nothing of the military advantages, given a world in which anti-satellite weapons are a given in the opening salvos of a war, of being able to rapidly replenish lost orbits. [1] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/01/spacex-launches-first-starlink-satellites-that-will-work-with-t-mobile-phones/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/01/spacex-launches-... [2] https://www.marketsandmarkets.com/Market-Reports/global-wi-fi-market-994.html https://www.marketsandmarkets.com/Market-Reports/global-wi-f...
- TheAlchemist 3y agoAh yes, the military business, it's pretty clear that it can be huge. And wow ! Had no idea that in-flight wi-fi is such a huge market.
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- inemesitaffia 3y agoBefore reusability, SpaceX was already the cheapest per KG