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Re:SpaceX plans worldwide satellite Internet with low latenc... by planteen on Thursday November 17, 2016 @09:20PM (#12983791)
It's nowhere near that expensive (dollars per kilobyte). I used the GlobalStar network on a project. The bigger cost for overage is 0.35 cents per second on data. The effective rate for a scp transfer (e.g., after all overheads) is about 750 bytes/ second. So you are looking at less than half a cent per KiB.

http://www.globalstar.com/en/index.php?cid=1470

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Re:SpaceX plans worldwide satellite Internet with low latenc... by sly010 on Thursday November 17, 2016 @09:47PM (#12983907)
I didn't know that. I got my numbers from [0].

Perhaps dollars are an overstatement, but your numbers are also for a best case scenario, when you have an application where you need to send data infrequently, in bulk, in an area with good coverage (not at sea) and no guarantees.

[0] http://www.rock7mobile.com/products-rockblock-plus.php

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