Sixteen U.S. states still ban community-owned broadband networks
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Re: Sixteen U.S. states still ban community-owned broadband networks
#2Once space-based broadband Internet becomes widely available, I predict shortsighted ISPs will join the ranks of Kodak and Blockbuster.
Re: Sixteen U.S. states still ban community-owned broadband networks
#3Once space-based broadband Internet becomes widely available, I predict shortsighted ISPs will join the ranks of Kodak and Blockbuster.
If that happens, wouldn't it be potentially worse than the current situation?
Surely your local neighborhood isn't going to deploy its own dedicated satellite constellation.
If/when satelite broadband becomes widespread, it will likely be consolidated and provided by 1 provider (maybe 2?) which might end up resulting in higher costs for everyone all around.
Re: Sixteen U.S. states still ban community-owned broadband networks
#4Once space-based broadband Internet becomes widely available, I predict shortsighted ISPs will join the ranks of Kodak and Blockbuster.
So? We trade a terrestrial based monopoly for a space based one?
Re: Sixteen U.S. states still ban community-owned broadband networks
#5Once space-based broadband Internet becomes widely available, I predict shortsighted ISPs will join the ranks of Kodak and Blockbuster.
It might come even sooner as mobile internet becomes faster and gets lower in latency. I used to have Cox, and the service availability was so bad it was nigh unusable. Switched to TMobile home 5g and in some cases, it's actually faster. That shouldn't be a thing but here we are. I don't play twitchy games so latency isn't really a concern for me. By the time 6g or whatever it's going to be called is well established, I think we'll see the incumbents get blockbuster'd.
Re: Sixteen U.S. states still ban community-owned broadband networks
#6Once space-based broadband Internet becomes widely available, I predict shortsighted ISPs will join the ranks of Kodak and Blockbuster.
So? We trade a terrestrial based monopoly for a space based one?
We'd also trade the fragments of resilience we have left against a single point of failure (both organizationally and infrastructurally).
Space-based internet makes total sense for very remote areas or as a bridge technology, as well as a technology to compete with incumbent terrestrial monopolies, but I'd hate to see fiber and terrestrial 5G rollouts stopping entirely in favor of it.
Re: Sixteen U.S. states still ban community-owned broadband networks
#7Once space-based broadband Internet becomes widely available, I predict shortsighted ISPs will join the ranks of Kodak and Blockbuster.
Is the total possible bandwidth available on these even comparable to optical fibers?
Re: Sixteen U.S. states still ban community-owned broadband networks
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
So? We trade a terrestrial based monopoly for a space based one?
We'd also trade the fragments of resilience we have left against a single point of failure (both organizationally and infrastructurally). Space-based internet makes total sense for very remote areas or as a bridge technology, as well as a technology to compete with incumbent terrestrial monopolies, but I'd hate to see fiber and terrestrial 5G rollouts stopping entirely in favor of it.
> We'd also trade the fragments of resilience we have left against a single point of failure
It's the characteristic of the 21th century, trading resiliency and robustness for performance. As long as the world is stable, it's nice.
Re: Sixteen U.S. states still ban community-owned broadband networks
#10Once space-based broadband Internet becomes widely available, I predict shortsighted ISPs will join the ranks of Kodak and Blockbuster.
This has a "Bitcoin will solve finance" feel to it. Not to be super dismissive, but there's just as much likelihood it will help as it won't.
But in your corner:
It's true that right now space-based deployment of broadband will provide broadband in locations where it's not currently available - perhaps spurring competition.
It's also probably true that space-based broadband will be able to compete directly with urban / dense areas where Comcast & company have an effective monopoly - also a good thing!
But there's no reason to think it will put comcast/company out of business at all. Has cell-tower based intenet service at all displaced comcast? Verizon and T-Mobile canvas my neighborhood claiming to offer the best internet, but as far as I can tell, everyone still uses Xfinity, even if Centurylink is much, much better.