True. My point was that employers may not offer them a choice if having them work at home saves the company money.It turns out that given the choice, many want to come into work.
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True. My point was that employers may not offer them a choice if having them work at home saves the company money.It turns out that given the choice, many want to come into work.
Yep, count us in that camp.I also agree that a fair number of people despise their current telco enough to switch if the service is good enough.
So I'm more optomistic on the financials.
I think the desirability of the service is better outside of city limits than you're thinking.
Sure, but only a few percent of the US is all it takes to be profitable.Starlink isn't going to provide both significantly better service and significantly lower cost for more than a few percent of the US's population.
Lastly, the "my ISP is terrible so I want SpaceX" argument clearly comes from a) people who have never dealt with SpaceX and b) people who have never dealt with Tesla customer service.
If you've dealt with one ElonCo you've dealt with them all.
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Also fair, and I totally agree there will be people who want better service than what they have, I'm just also considering the power of money. Starlink isn't going to provide both significantly better service and significantly lower cost for more than a few percent of the US's population. For most customers on the potential fence it will come down to a social experiment on the value of service quality over money.
Maybe I'm just a bit of a pessimist, but my lifetime's worth of anecdotal observation suggests the latter...
Lastly, the "my ISP is terrible so I want SpaceX" argument clearly comes from a) people who have never dealt with SpaceX and b) people who have never dealt with Tesla customer service.
My guess is they (heck - me) would cheerfully pay $300/month for 100Mb / low ping time internet.
So what's the problem? Use the same basic building blocks but give better service to people who will pay more.Lol. You won't find small business willing to pay that.
There's a market for $300 whiz bang service just as there's a market for Tesla P-cars.
So what's the problem? Use the same basic building blocks but give better service to people who will pay more.
As I posted above, I'm paying $200 for top of the line geosat service. I would easily pay that for Starlink. I am exactly the kind of person @adiggs was talking about. I had a Bay Area job. Four years ago I moved to the country and kept my Bay Area job. Cost of living is radically lower here so I can easily pay more for connectivity. Obviously, I don't know if there are enough of me to support a company.
Small business pays $200-$250 a month for fibre internet service and a few static IPs.Lol. You won't find small business willing to pay that.
There's a market for $300 whiz bang service just as there's a market for Tesla P-cars.
So what's the problem?
Small business pays $200-$250 a month for fibre internet service and a few static IPs.
I wonder how these gateways work.
My understanding is that the current sats do not have the inter sat laser links. So all comms will be single hop ground->sat->ground as shown by compete coverage of the ground stations. The ground stations themselves may be as simple as a bunch of the standard ground terminals set up to provide connections to multiple birds simultaneously. They could also have larger phased arrays with smaller beam widths to better discriminate between the multiple beams all pointing at the ground station, allowing for more connections.
The whole shebang then ties into the existing backbone.
So will I be able to take my Starlink antenna/receiver with me when I am traveling in my RV?
My house would be talking to the satellite, that will in turn be talking to the ground station, and connecting to the rest of the internet from there.