SpaceX plans worldwide satellite Internet with low latency, gigabit speed

Re:SpaceX plans worldwide satellite Internet with low latenc... by tim333 on Thursday November 17, 2016 @08:05PM (#12983421)

I used to have a sat phone (Thuraya) and it was pretty reliable if you were outside. They don't work well inside buildings.

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Re:SpaceX plans worldwide satellite Internet with low latenc... by damianknz on Thursday November 17, 2016 @08:35PM (#12983594)

You'll get around that in your home by having the satellite module thing up on your roof and a cable to your wifi router.

What I don't understand about this though is the number of frequencies available to connect to all these satellites and how it might extend to ~300 million people (let alone a billion potentially).

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Re:SpaceX plans worldwide satellite Internet with low latenc... by tim333 on Friday November 18, 2016 @07:17AM (#12986204)

I think they focus a beam on each user in turn and so don't need different frequencies.

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