Musk already has a hard enough time following the rules with Tesla. He's a liability, and it makes sense for them to spin off projects once they're commercially viable.
I know, I just want to invest in it.
Musk already has a hard enough time following the rules with Tesla. He's a liability, and it makes sense for them to spin off projects once they're commercially viable.
he's not it's about the defamation lawsuit see this thread for the origin of that meme
Totally forgot about that fiasco. Add it to the pile of reasons he sucks ass.he's not it's about the defamation lawsuit which he won see this thread
Elon Musk wins Twitter defamation trial brought by caver Vernon Unsworth
https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/6/20998821/elon-musk-wins-loses-twitter-defamation-trial-testimony-caver-vernon-unsworth-cave-rescue oh boywww.resetera.com
I'd look into T-Mobile home internet if I were in rural areas.
Damn, people really are willing to overpay for convenience aren't they lol. $500 for the equipment and $99/month. Eek. Sucks that this is a solution. Just goes to show how shitty of a situation we're in when this is considered acceptable.
And here I am continuing to hold out hope that $50/mo for 1 Gig is around the corner.
I know it's such a shame.My Dad currently pays $100 per month for Hughes net which lets you watch 360p Youtube videos on a Good day.
If you don't live in a rural area or in a developing country, then you're not the target demographic. For those who are, this is game-changing.
Think this is for middle class Americans/Canadians living in rural telecom deserts.
Same price for 15 down here.
At Starlink's speed you could split it 10 ways or more and still have decent internet. Have a rural village set up a wifi spot or something.But $99/month USD is a lot to ask for many citizens in developing countries, so this can't really be for them.
Right now the availability is limited to mostly 1st World Countries due to the way deployment is being done. They are working from the North Pole South.But $99/month USD is a lot to ask for many citizens in developing countries, so this can't really be for them.
They got us by the balls. Hopefully not much longer.
AT&T promised where I lived fiber in a few years, but then decided you're switching to point install 4G with a low cap instead. Thankfully cable and point install 4G is an option here but this is so much better than current satellite plans in the statesI've been keeping an eye on this as our ADSL is in the shitter here in France. It's not that it's slow (although it is at 4-5Mb) it's that it's so inconsistent and drops out when the wind gets beyond a stiff breeze. Orange have no interest in fixing the shitty cabling as they're supposedly going to have 100% fibre coverage by 2025.
The monthly charge though... We've just sacked off Orange and have unlimited 4G which is giving us about 30-40Mb download. Upload can vary from 2-10Mb. All for 32€ a month.
I get that in larger countries, some rural areas any ADSL or mobile won't even be an option, so in that regard it seems a much better offering than existing satellite broadband.
End goal when the full network is deployed is gigabit internet so if they can achieve their end goal it will be a threat to all ISPsI heard about this earlier today. I'm definitely not in their target market, but it's good news for people who already pay almost $100 for awful service.
At Starlink's speed you could split it 10 ways or more and still have decent internet. Have a rural village set up a wifi spot or something.
T-Mobile isn't the shit network it used to beLOL! T-Mo's baseline CELL service isn't available in rural areas, much less their home solution.
I highly doubt a country with censored internet would allow the import of these things and I don't think Starlink is open sourcing their linking tech or opening their bandwidth to everyone with a dish or however it works.Will this work for people in countries with censored internet?
I wouldn't be surprised to see a black market for the hardware though. And here in Australia we have some censoring of the internet with piracy sites, and I doubt our gov will do much to prevent this here.I highly doubt a country with censored internet would allow the import of these things and I don't think Starlink is open sourcing their linking tech or opening their bandwidth to everyone with a dish or however it works.
For sure, it will be like "stealing" your neighbor's WiFi or TV signal.I wouldn't be surprised to see a black market for the hardware though. And here in Australia we have some censoring of the internet with piracy sites, and I doubt our gov will do much to prevent this here.
The thought of a corporation roughly tripling the number of satellites in orbit gives me Kessler syndrome worries.
The study was commissioned by the Fiber Broadband Association (FBA) and NTCA-The Rural Broadband Association. They are urging the FCC to carefully examine whether SpaceX's Starlink broadband service should receive money from the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF), which recently awarded SpaceX $885.51 million over 10 years to bring Starlink to 642,925 homes and businesses in 35 states. The funding for SpaceX and other ISPs won't be finalized until the FCC reviews their long-form applications, which were submitted after the reverse auction.
NTCA represents 850 small telcos while the FBA represents a mix of ISPs, municipalities, and vendors that sell equipment and services to ISPs. The FBA and NTCA filing comes days after lobby groups for electric co-ops that provide broadband told the FCC that SpaceX's low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite technology is experimental and unproven, and it shouldn't get funding. The electric co-op groups also raised concerns about fixed-wireless services that are slated to receive FCC funding.
The FCC will examine SpaceX's technical claims before approving the money, but Starlink may in fact be the best option for numerous Americans who live in broadband deserts. Fiber-to-the-home is obviously today's gold standard for broadband, providing the fastest speeds, uploads that are as fast as downloads, and excellent reliability. But incumbent ISPs haven't extended fiber-to-the-home to huge portions of the United States, especially in rural America and even in many urban and suburban areas.
While incumbent ISPs are wary of the new competition from Starlink's low Earth orbit satellites, traditional wireline telcos are no guarantee to meet FCC deployment requirements. CenturyLink and Frontier recently missed FCC deployment deadlines in dozens of states, and both of them are slated to get more money from the new RDOF program.
jfcPeople should look at the pricing for Rural Alaska before complaining about Starlink's price and speed. Take a peek at Cold bay's options.
ISPs step up fight against SpaceX, tell FCC that Starlink will be too slow
ISPs step up fight against SpaceX, tell FCC that Starlink will be too slow
SpaceX's FCC broadband funding faces more opposition from telco trade groups.arstechnica.com
LTT explains in this video that once the satellite has an end of life cycle it burns up on the admosfeer.This is terrible, and it's going to cause so much space junk too. It's not even better than 4g. I get that some countries have terrible infrastructure, but fixing that should be (I'm saying should, not is) be cheaper and easier than sending thousands of satellites up into the sky
LTT explains in this video that once the satellite has an end of life cycle it burns up on the admosfeer.
I know there are regulations in place to lessen the chances of Kessler syndrome but corporations will cut corners. Considering NASA has made mistakes and occasionally deadly fuckups, the thought of a corporation putting thousands of satellites into orbit is concerning.FWIW, at least on paper, the satellites are so small that their impact profile SHOULDN'T be terribly harmful to other objects should they malfunction and break orbit and are designed to burn up in early re-entry.
But I feel you. It's not like you can test for Kessler Syndrome.
Know what's great about up here? The satellite options, that are pretty objectively terrible, that everyone complains about, are often not available up here at all. Since a geostationary satellite orbits around the earths equator, a satellite dish in Alaska that wants to lock onto any signal from a geostationary satellite basically has to point at the horizon. So if you have any trees, or God forbid hills around you, it's basically impossible to get a signal.jfc
Hopefully the arrival of Starlink gives these scummy bloodsuckers sleepless nights.
Starlink will add pole-orbiting satellites that will communicate with one another using lasers. So with time it will work even in the north and south pole.Know what's great about up here? The satellite options, that are pretty objectively terrible, that everyone complains about, are often not available up here at all. Since a geostationary satellite orbits around the earths equator, a satellite dish in Alaska that wants to lock onto any signal from a geostationary satellite basically has to point at the horizon. So if you have any trees, or God forbid hills around you, it's basically impossible to get a signal.
I'm currently 10 miles from a "city"with gigabit fiber (for close to $200 a month), literally no ISP services the house I'm living in, and I could buy a house in New York for what I've been quoted to get one out here.