I love how libertarians are willing to use a communication network controlled by a billionaire oligarch who bought a presidency to further his business and personal ideological interests, but are worried about government overreach.
Starlink Direct to Cell
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I was curious about this! I wish this was a perk of owning / purchasing a Tesla or a more expensive option of Starlink terminal.
It’s kind of crazy Tesla hasn’t partnered with SpaceX to provide Starlink as an option.
That reminds me, I wonder what they did about the Subaru Starlink trademark.
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Sailors can make calls using the ships Wi-Fi via full sized Starlink dishes, they need coverage on land. But even ignoring that the contention is low in the middle of the ocean and satellites have hardware either way, driving down the market rate for calls at sea.
The setup cost for Starlink on a boat is still massively higher than on land.
There are plenty of YouTube videos showing Starlink on basic sailing yachts.
It takes a day at most if you want a simple setup.
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#174Does this allow the ability to circumvent LTE networks in countries like China? Do we have the capability to send messages to any/all phones in China if we (USA) wanted to?
The regular Starlink, which requires a dish, doesn't even operate in China (it could technically but no regulatory approval). Obviously China would not allow this either.
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100% speak to A German high speed rail traveller and she will tell you all about the white spots
Any idea of the etymology for calling it a "white spot"? Assuming this is a German thing
Terra Incognita — the part of a map that is blank and therefore white: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wei%C3%9Fer_Fleck
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The board at Tesla is basically Elon’s buddies. There is no oversight or independence there, they do what he wants. If law was applied equality to billionaires as it does to regular people, he would be in jail for fraud.
> The board at Tesla is basically Elon’s buddies. There is no oversight or independence there, they do what he wants. This is true at most companies with a competent CEO. My uncle had an inimical board that tried to remove him, but he somehow replaced them all one by one before they could. Needless to say he replaced them with people who didn't want to remove him ("buddies"; but what kind of a leader surrounds himsel…
> This is true at most companies with a competent CEO.
No it's not.
Competent CEOs hire boards that align with their world-view but are independent enough to provide useful advice. And almost all startup boards will have investors who definitely will not rubber stamp the sort of thing going on at Tesla.
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I’m curious why this is being downvoted (seems to hit the nail on the head)
Well, it's certainly how Musk likes to market himself.
12 children, 3 billion dollars companies, "advising" the government on cutting millions of jobs", yet he is "very hands on"
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#178I really wonder if anyone is going to be able to catch up to SpaceX anytime soon. Kuiper seems dead in the water, the legacy operators seem unwilling to expand into LEO constellations.
Honestly not sure why they would want to.
The world is continually moving towards being centred around cities where it makes sense to simply rollout fibre.
Especially with gigabit speeds being the new standard.
And even in Australia they are starting to move remote areas onto fibre.
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#179I wish I could pay Starlink directly and have global satellite based LTE instead of having to go through a specific carrier and be limited by other carriers’ reciprocity to specific countries and bands One space based cell plan for the whole world
Doesn't T-Mobile come close to that? I've heard that T-Mo works in most countries across the globe.
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#180So they now offer direct cellular coverage whereas before only offered internet? This is great for regions that need to be connected and the power elites, but for the rest of us it wouldn't change much. I disagree with almost all of Elon's "politics" but Starlink still has huge potential. Hopefully, he doesn’t abuse the power too much and focuses on making the world more connected, in the hands of the us government a…
> This is great for regions that need to be connected That's at least a billion people. I don't know what the intersection of that with the affordability is, though. I'm writing this from an Ayahuasca center in rural Peru connected with Starlink. Before, internet was a ten minute drive into town away. We're now connected when at one side of the center. It would be nice to have it all the way into the jungle. And when…
> That's at least a billion people
a) Based on what we've seen in China, India etc many of those will shift towards densely populated cities or will stay and those locations will become industrialised, densely populated cities.
b) In densely populated cities it doesn't make sense to use Starlink when fibre is far cheaper, has limited congestion issues and can provide gigabit speeds at a minimum.
c) It's great that you're writing this in rural Peru but that is a declining use case and should not be extrapolated to the rest of the world.