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"The only thing freezing traditional telecommunication infrastructure in place are dreams of low earth orbit satellites which will never materialize." Do you t
by chermi 1y ago
"The only thing freezing traditional telecommunication infrastructure in place are dreams of low earth orbit satellites which will never materialize."
Do you truly believe this statement, literally?
- inemesitaffia 1y agoTheir problem isn't LEO. If SpaceX sells Starlink to Amazon and buys Corning, Ciena and Nokia, they'll be extolling the virtues of LEO Megaconstellations
- runarberg 1y agoI am advocating for state funded infrastructure. So no, never will I be extolling this technology, especially not if it changes hands from the worst billionaire on the planet to the second worst billionaire on the planet.
- inemesitaffia 1y agoi.e just make Kuiper owned by the Feds in this example.
- runarberg 1y agoI actually don‘t believe this. But some politicians do, and that does real damage when they take funding away from actual infrastructure projects which would have otherwise benefited under-served communities with high speed internet. When I say LEO satellite internet won‘t materialize, I mean that it won‘t serve everybody. It will always be an expensive option which in best case will be subsidized for only a portion of the people that actually need it. LEO satellite is not the future of telecommunication infrastructure, it is lacking in almost every way next to traditional infrastructure. The only thing it is better at is a) marketing and b) providing internet to rich people in their yachts or in their mansions 10 miles out of the suburb.