Holy crap, I saw this movie. Do his phones make people want to kill each other?
I’ve read claims that Starlink could end earth bound radio astronomy.
I saw a string of 63 satellites in the predawn sky two weeks ago. Spectacular.
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Every nerd who was stuffed in their locker is having their get even with the cool kids day!
Hire Sarah Connor as a consultant.
Wow , it would be nice if it became competition for the evil “Ministry of Truth” (GOOGLE) who currently owns the internet, all information and all of history
I think this is the problem that earth-bound providers and media fear the most.
Starlink is tethered to earth internet but is experimenting with laser interconnectivity between satellites. This would mean a net ABOVE earth that could be used between starlink subscribers and could provide services NOT available to earth internet users.
In other words, premium content that could be based in SpaceX servers and beamed only to Starlink for Starlink users. Elon is slowly but surely leaning free market and is anti-censorship. You might find in two years him extending encryption keys to Chinese behind the great firewall or allowing banned apps like Parler or Gab hosting on his service.
It might lead to an exodus from land-based providers to Starlink, which would push anti-censorship through technology again just as media and governments attempt to clamp down on land-based internet.
I’ll sign up as soon as it’s available. I live off grid and full time RV when I can get internet when I don’t need to be in my shop.
The only other option there is cell service at 6 Mb and 20Gb monthly limit or HughesNet which sucks hard.
We will need Internet at our farm when we build there in a couple of years. I signed up for updates on Starlink and just received a notice that it was available in middle Tennessee. Equipment cost is $500, subscription cost is $99/mo. Speed is expected to be 50-150 mb with a 20-50 msec latency.
Us bumpkins need better interwebs.
I had my misgivings due to their site’s stating that there’d be a lot of slow times and down times, I decided to just go ahead and sign up with it.
I’ll pay two internet bills, and dump the one that isn’t holding up by December.
Because...reasons.
Current around 100mps and future is announced 10gbps
https://www.pcmag.com/news/spacexs-starlink-raises-download-speed-goal-from-1gbps-to-10gbps
You can download spam and viruses much faster....
The market for Starlink in the USA is pretty small compared to the cable market, but, the exact same satellites that are being used to service the USA’s 5 million user recevers, will also service the other 15/16 of the land area of the planet. The number of subscriptions will be proportional to the area.
Starlink is going to be magnificently profitable in its first incarnation, and any upgrades will multiply that profitability a magnitude or two. Then add on the content and endpoint services — don’t be suprized if you hear Starlink is buying Disney, etc.
Starlink will be bigger than Tesla.
Good.
The left hates competition.
The article’s closing reference to 5G/6G being competition to Starlink is so much wishful thinking. For the same reason why cable and fiber don’t go to lesser-populated rural areas, i.e. $$$/sq.mi/subscriber, Starlink will quickly gain share with service & online speed. Last week, I was barely outside the Tulsa metro and the I-44 corridor when I lost Internet connectivity on my phone because it wasn’t even 3G service. That area will be years before 5G arrives and Musk will have already locked in his subscriber base.
That's a lot of space junk. 
5G and 6G cellular currently still needs a connection to the cell towers.
There's nothing stopping Musk from setting up cell towers in rural areas, with the voice/data traffic going over Starlink. There's also nothing stopping him from using Starlink to offer internet and cellular service to people on cruise ships at sea, and airliners.