> how is the latency issue going to be addressed? Musk's plan is to not deploy in geosynchronous orbit. Instead, an orbit near LEO (but far enough to not be to

> how is the latency issue going to be addressed? Musk's plan is to not deploy in geosynchronous orbit. Instead, an orbit near LEO (but far enough to not be too crowded already) is being used. That means that the satellites will have quite an angular velocity to the base stations. The actual innovation comes in form of networking technology that can do very fast handovers and is capable of communicating in a stable way with such a network. Latency could actually be reduced when compared to our current networks for long distances since line-of-sight can be more closely approximated as soon as you get the initial hop to LEO (which is not a large one in terms of latency).