As Predicted, Starlink Launches Broadband Usage Caps, Overage Fees | Techdirt
Littered space with a huge amount of very basic satellite hardware and wants the best price for the service. Musk may think that throwing the term āin spaceā fools everyone into thinking all heās working with hi-tech, future proof equipment. He is all Sc-Fi in the head and very little of that transitions into reality over a short period of time. Unless you have no other option, Starlink is best avoided!
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Although I agree that there are better options, when available, that is the whole point of the Starlink system is to provide broadband to areas without another option.
And that is the case in many rural areas around the world, the US included.
Starlink has proved to be a godsend for firefighters in the west, the Ukraineās resistance against Russia and people who live in mountainous terrain.
AFA as the rest of your post, nearly nothing about it is correct. It is not ābasic satellite equipmentā.
That would be Hughsnet.
There are many technological innovations in the system, from the small size & speed of the processors in the satellites, to the laser communications between the satellites, to the āantennaā required to receive the service.
The latency compares with many fiber systems.
Itās not surprising that there are going to be some data limits imposed. That fact that the limits are necessary in fact is evidence of Starlinkās success.
Itās also evidence that the US still doesnāt recognize that the internet is, in truth, a basic utility and should be regarded similar to what electricity & phone service was in the early 1920-1930ās. If it was, Starlink wouldnāt be needed in the US.
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