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As far as Internet numbers go, 700K signing up to receive updates isn't that amazing.
It’s about a 7th the world population... According to google “ Almost 4.57 billion people were active internet users as of July 2020, encompassing 59 percent of the global population.” So about 15% of everyone connected to the current internet...
You're a little off. Check your math. It looks like you mistook 700k for 700 million.
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SpaceX/Starlink have done effectively no marketing spend to get those leads into their funnel. Subscriber acquisition costs (SAC) for home broadband and TV are very high, and due to churn doesn't necessarily even translate into net subscriber adds. Those numbers are good by any measure. One representative example, Subscriber acquisition costs for Dish network: "DISH TV SAC was $822 during the year ended December 31,…
Does SAC include new subscriber discounts?
"Subscriber Acquisition and Retention Costs
We incur significant upfront costs to acquire subscribers, including advertising, independent third-party retailer incentives, payments made to third-parties, equipment subsidies, installation services, and/or new customer promotions."
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Comcast is likely currently working on regulation to block them.
[citation required] Look it's one thing to hate on big corporations for existing actions, but's entirely something else to invent conspiracy theories. In reality Comcast isn't threatened by Starlink because Starlink market is aimed at less populated areas so Comcast has no need to fight it. It would be completely oversaturated by cities and cities are easy to invest in building network infrastructure. Now, I could im…
As far as Internet numbers go, 700K signing up to receive updates isn't that amazing.
It’s about a 7th the world population... According to google “ Almost 4.57 billion people were active internet users as of July 2020, encompassing 59 percent of the global population.” So about 15% of everyone connected to the current internet...
1 billion = 1,000,000,000
1 million = 1,000,000
I would love to have this as a backup internet option. I live in a town that has Google Fiber (literally 50 feet away from me), but I don't have access. I'm oncall and cannot be without internet at almost any time, and my internet goes down much more than I'm comfortable with. I hope Starlink is an option soon!
Coming from San Francisco, I didn't realize how many people face this reality of poor connectivity. I don't care much about who is doing this as much as I care that someone is doing it at all. Most people don't realize how much of an internet access disparity exists. Especially as more education moves towards digital, internet access is a fundamental utility.
> In addition to getting the satellites in orbit, SpaceX will need to build a vast system of ground stations and affordable user terminals if it is going to connect consumers directly to its network. Why are ground stations required? I thought you were connecting from your dish to the satellite and therefore could be anywhere with a view of the sky.
Basically, user computer user wifi or router user terminal satellite ground station fiber peering to other internet providers.
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Comcast is likely currently working on regulation to block them.
[citation required] Look it's one thing to hate on big corporations for existing actions, but's entirely something else to invent conspiracy theories. In reality Comcast isn't threatened by Starlink because Starlink market is aimed at less populated areas so Comcast has no need to fight it. It would be completely oversaturated by cities and cities are easy to invest in building network infrastructure. Now, I could im…
These low-latency satellite constellations will reduce the local oligopoly/monopoly rents (and thus profitability) of Comcast, AT&T, Verizon, CenturyLink, Cox, Frontier, etc... And the money that would've been profit will go to consumers' pockets, even if they don't themselves subscribe.
> In addition to getting the satellites in orbit, SpaceX will need to build a vast system of ground stations and affordable user terminals if it is going to connect consumers directly to its network. Why are ground stations required? I thought you were connecting from your dish to the satellite and therefore could be anywhere with a view of the sky.
I have a house on a farm. I only have relatively high speed internet (25mb/s) b/c someone set up a line of sight system pointing at a mountain as a co-op. My neighbors' house about half a kilometer away is blocked by a hill so they can't use it. When it's cloudy, I have to use my phone as a mobile hotspot. Coming from San Francisco, I didn't realize how many people face this reality of poor connectivity. I don't care…
I'm a bit sad about it, because tech advances have technically made this sort of thing dead easy.