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Apple's feature is not comparable. It is extremely low bandwidth and requires special hardware and holding the phone pointing in a certain direction. Starlink a
by modeless 2y ago
Apple's feature is not comparable. It is extremely low bandwidth and requires special hardware and holding the phone pointing in a certain direction. Starlink acts as a regular (albeit low bandwidth) 4G tower in space.
- quailfarmer 2y agoStarlink DTC is also very low bandwidth in this generation, it’s is a fundamentally similar RF link budget
- modeless 2y agoStarlink DTC bandwidth is orders of magnitude higher than Apple's.
- everfrustrated 2y agoStarlink allows calling (Apple's can't) which requires a higher bandwidth by definition. Obviously it will never have the bandwidth of a local cell site, but doesn't need to to still be useful.