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Re:SpaceX plans worldwide satellite Internet with low latenc... by the8472 on Friday November 18, 2016 @03:22AM (#12985209)
lasers are wireless and don't compete for spectrum. beam-forming with phased arrays is not quite as good, but still gives you more capacity than naively shared spectrum would.
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Re:SpaceX plans worldwide satellite Internet with low latenc... by flukus on Friday November 18, 2016 @04:17AM (#12985450)
This is laser based? Are the building ground stations everywhere too?
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Re:SpaceX plans worldwide satellite Internet with low latenc... by the8472 on Friday November 18, 2016 @04:39AM (#12985533)
The links to end-users use beam-steered microwaves, sat-sat links use laser.

I was more making a more general statement: that wireless is not necessarily synonymous with shared medium.

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