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Such receivers can also act as backhaul for mesh networks, providing access to un-censored information in times of turmoil and peace alike.
This is good news for the USA, but it's GREAT news for countries where the government regularly cuts off and controls the Internet for political purposes. If receivers can be as small as a personal laptop, expect a thriving black market in them in places like Iran and Egypt. Such receivers can also act as backhaul for mesh networks, providing access to un-censored information in times of turmoil and peace alike.
This is good news for the USA, but it's GREAT news for countries where the government regularly cuts off and controls the Internet for political purposes. If receivers can be as small as a personal laptop, expect a thriving black market in them in places like Iran and Egypt. Such receivers can also act as backhaul for mesh networks, providing access to un-censored information in times of turmoil and peace alike.
They'll probably just end up turning off service over certain geographic areas.
EDIT: Data customers would pay for access on an individual basis. Helicopter-parent countries might cry foul, but what leverage do they have? It's not like they were going to launch things with SpaceX and they can threaten to stop.
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They'll probably just end up turning off service over certain geographic areas.
Why would they do this? EDIT: Data customers would pay for access on an individual basis. Helicopter-parent countries might cry foul, but what leverage do they have? It's not like they were going to launch things with SpaceX and they can threaten to stop.
They could always keep operating anyway, but it's only a matter of time before these governments set up jammers.
Do we have space in orbit for this? This is a lot of satellites and I also don't get how the latency can be so much lower than current satellite ISPs?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/04/20/mega-constellatio...
This may help explain why Verizon is cutting FiOS prices and increasing speeds: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/04/veriz...
Gigabit fiber is being rolled out in my area. It is amazing how quickly it is progressing compared to the work of Verizon or Google Fiber. So at least from that one example, there seems to be new players entering cities
Do we have space in orbit for this? This is a lot of satellites and I also don't get how the latency can be so much lower than current satellite ISPs?
2) Present internet satellites are all in mostly geostationary orbits that are much further away then the proposed leo's. Realistically the ones we have now introduce a whopping 650ms. This will be a huge improvement.
"SpaceX has also proposed an additional 7,500 satellites operating even closer to the ground, saying that this will boost capacity and reduce latency in heavily populated areas." This should be interesting, depending on how this is regulated on the legal side it could result in the major ISP's updating our infrastructure, of course nothing has stopped them from agreeing to update infrastructure then running off with…
> Not to mention they will probably use legal means to hamstring this if possible. I wonder how this could work. It's not like, e.g., Milwaukee has any legal oversight over LEO.
They could also get some silly RF regulations passed that make it not feasible economically.