Saint Helena Island Communications

Post by Tijdreiziger » Tue, Sep 26, 2023, 3:12 AM UTC

thefz wrote: post #92

> In July 2019 the Government of St Helena announced that it has issued a letter of intent to connect the island to Equiano. The 1,140Km branch to Saint Helena was completed in 2021 so this cable will provide the first fibre optic connectivity from St Helena to the outside world through both Europe and South Africa. > Compared to the current satellite link the cable will bring almost incredible amounts of capacity. T…

Post by kortilla » Tue, Sep 26, 2023, 3:26 AM UTC

capableweb wrote: post #39

Tijdreiziger wrote: post #27

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I remember reading that Starlink routes traffic via base stations in the subscriber’s own country, in order not to anger regulators. If you think about it it makes sense; otherwise governments could just ban the sale of Starlink equipment for violating the law.

Seems unlikely that Starlink would put a base station on Saint Helena just to be able to serve some percentage of ~4000 population. Most likely the base station is somewhere else.

Post by inemesitaffia » Tue, Sep 26, 2023, 6:15 AM UTC

lxgr wrote: post #43

legitster wrote: post #20

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There was a line, I believe in the Machineries of Freedom, that says the goal of "effective" libertarian politics is not to change laws - it's to design disruptive technologies that make existing laws irrelevant . We saw one version of this with Uber and Airbnb, essentially blowing up taxi and rental regulations, respectively. This is happening with AI, where regulation is hopelessly lost in its current state. We hav…

> Breaking existing rules and being unregulatable is probably an intentional point of Starlink. Looking at Starlink's coverage map (for stationary service at least), they seem to very much be playing by the rules (i.e. international laws and regulations regarding satellite communication services): https://www.starlink.com/map A "break rules and become unregulateable" approach would not have service boundaries corresp…

Post by Thorrez » Tue, Sep 26, 2023, 6:59 AM UTC

dekhn wrote: post #62

warkdarrior wrote: post #59

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The operators work for me. I get different results with and without '-napa -carolina -california'.

Truly weird: for me, -california won't suppress the top result (a map of St Helena California) but adding -carolina and -california removes the map and puts the wikipedia page for St Helena (the saint person). In either case, using Tools -> Verbatim works better than "All Results"

Post by Symbiote » Tue, Sep 26, 2023, 7:44 AM UTC

yencabulator wrote: post #107

capableweb wrote: post #39

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Seems unlikely that Starlink would put a base station on Saint Helena just to be able to serve some percentage of ~4000 population. Most likely the base station is somewhere else.

I wouldn't expect Starlink to serve remote ocean areas until after they have their space lasers working well and can transport the traffic to a continent.