That’s definitely good news, if we can get anything Elon out of our lives, it’s always a plus.
Eh, I don’t particularly care much about Elon, he’ll eventually go away. But more competition is usually good.
More competition? LETS GO!
How bad is it for low earth orbit to have multiple companies fighting over the market?
Low earth orbit is very big. It’s not bad.
We need the UN to have crown corporations
Fuck the stars. Like they do anything for profits.
I would support a petition for the UN to maintain control of that market. 1 it would give the UN an more active role and give it a means of funding itself 2 it would prevent multiple companies from rushing to install their cluster of sats keeping the sky as free of debris as possible
Just initial idea…
Awesome, anything competitive at this point to get off of starlink is welcome.
Damn that sounds impressive. Hopefully they can get this service deployed before the others do and they can start to claim some more market share
Except Starlink already has direct to cell technology, with satellites already in orbit, and limited coverage already available. I don’t know if they’re using 5g, but this tech is available to the public already.
The article states that Starlink requires special equipment to access the satellites, and that’s just not true.
Accurate.
More competition is good IMO. Ideally, we’ll end up with a cross-company agreement to share satellites so each can compete on overall service instead of infrastructure, kind of like municipal wifi.
At the moment, what is happening is that people sign up to an existing provider, who then bundles in access as part of the plan.
I wonder if it wouldn’t be cheaper and more practical to just install antennas all over…
In the ocean too?
Considering the number of launches that will be required if there isn’t just one provider with tens of thousands of satellites floating around? Yeah.
