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SpaceX will deliver global high-speed internet in 2019 using more than 4,000 satellites

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Great.....MORE spam emails from Africa.

They don't need internet. They need condoms.

You know if that wasn't so wrong I'd have stolen that for my sig.
 

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It doesn't seem economically viable. I think there are already some satellite internet services for people in rural areas with no broadband but aren't they ridiculously expensive?
Satellite internet service is more similar to cellular internet service than terrestrial in terms of severe data caps at high costs. What's worse is that those satellites use long waves to high orbit satellites so latency is usually measured in seconds, not milliseconds. The current satellite options simply aren't an option for internet gamers. They're not really great for anyone else either unless you're only other choice is dial up.
 
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I was curious so I took a look at a satellite broadband provider called HughesNet and it looks like they sell access by the GB. Their 50 GB plan is $100 a month. Games are getting ridiculously big these days and one game download could use up all of your access for the month. I don't think satellite broadband is intended for gamers at all.
 

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Yes please, I would like this. the internet sucks in my country, and they're not doing anything to improve it because there is no competition, whenever someone would invest/try to compete with them, the providers will just buy them out.

I hope they complete this and make if available to us in a very competitive(cheap) price without the government/local companies interfering.

I wanna be optimistic and want this to happen. A single rocket could potentially launch up to 100 satellies (they would need to make the satellites small) and satellites in GEO orbit can stay for SUPER LONG periods of time. and satellites in LEO can stay from 10 to 100 years, depending on it's thrusters and fuel to readjust it's orbit back to normal. so whether they would go GEO or LEO

Let's say SpaceX advances it's technology enough that it is able to launch 150 satellites per launch. that would require less than 30 launches for it to work. around 1 launch per month over the course of 3-4 years would be enough to cover the globe. combine it with SpaceX's cost-cutting reusable landing tech and it would be way cheaper than some may realize.

Subscription fees. they could offer a super cheap low-tier of speeds with less than 1Gbps connection which will be 'subsidized' by the high cost of high tier plans(20+Gbps). also get investors and put in a package deal for Netflix, Steam, Spotify, Uber, Internet TVs, Phones, and such, justifying to their investors as extending their audience(SpaceX allows them to offer their services fast and easy WORLDWIDE, to reach those places they would never reach) reducing the cost even more
Yes people dying in Rawanda need Netflix so they don't miss the new season of Daredevil.
 

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I was curious so I took a look at a satellite broadband provider called HughesNet and it looks like they sell access by the GB. Their 50 GB plan is $100 a month. Games are getting ridiculously big these days and one game download could use up all of your access for the month. I don't think satellite broadband is intended for gamers at all.
Still beats the hell out of dialup. About the only people that'd look at satellite internet service are those that have no access to terrestrial wireless or ADSL.

HughesNet set me junk mail like every week for a year. They are as bad as AOL. I think they stopped sending it because I no longer use Frontier.

Yes people dying in Rawanda need Netflix so they don't miss the new season of Daredevil.
Maybe Hollywood is behind this?
 
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Yes people dying in Rawanda need Netflix so they don't miss the new season of Daredevil.
Don't forget Boko Haram needs the Disney Channel for all those schoolgirls they kidnap.
 

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Don't forget Boko Haram needs the Disney Channel for all those schoolgirls they kidnap.
Are we still doing the "bring our girls home" thing or did someone find another "cause" to distract us with? I remember when Michelle Obama held a sign. It was so powerful. It was almost as if she cared more about the girls than her likes on Facebook. Then a week past and someone found a new shiny thing. People are stupid.
 

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high speed internet allows me access to such internet pearlers as that one ^^^^^^^..........:clap::clap::clap:
 
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Are we still doing the "bring our girls home" thing or did someone find another "cause" to distract us with? I remember when Michelle Obama held a sign. It was so powerful. It was almost as if she cared more about the girls than her likes on Facebook. Then a week past and someone found a new shiny thing. People are stupid.

They left the boys, cause we are expendable.....
 

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OneWeb and Airbus have started the production of a satellite mega-constellation.

The initial order will involve the production of 10 pilot satellites that will go through a comprehensive set of tests before becoming OneWeb's first fleet.

This pilot fleet is expected to be launched in just nine months, and if successful, will lead to the production of the a fleet of 900 satellites.

OneWeb's production will begin in Toulouse, where satellites will be manufactured, validated and tested ahead of the first launch in March 2018.

The programme is a joint venture between OneWeb and Airbus Defence and Space, who together are expected to produce 900 communications satellites for OneWeb's low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite fleet.

The goal is to provide affordable broadband Internet services to rural and under-served regions, enabling voice and data communications via user terminals on the ground.

If the initial testing of 10 satellites in Toulouse goes well, production of the larger fleet will then move to a factory near the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida.

The project is estimated to cost between $1.5 billion (£1.2 billion) and $2 billion (£1.6 billion).




http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-40422011
 
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