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Re:Mozilla Files Suit Against FCC to Protect Net Neutrality by wongarsu on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @12:14AM (#16165648)
>Satellite can never offer acceptable latency.

Satellite internet can offer very competitive latency, even though nobody is doing it so far. Small cubesats make lower orbits viable than what's currently used for satellite internet. At a low earth orbit of 400km (about the height of the ISS) you have a round trip time of just 3ms.

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Re:Mozilla Files Suit Against FCC to Protect Net Neutrality by rosser on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @12:46AM (#16165760)
A theoretical alternative no-one is deploying is not an alternative.
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Re:Mozilla Files Suit Against FCC to Protect Net Neutrality by pythonaut_16 on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @12:45PM (#16170004)
SpaceX is planning on launching there satellite internet service in the next 5 years, and it could potentially have lower latency than traditional fiber networks due to the satellites being able to communicate more directly.

I don't disagree with you though, we need solid fiber internet options available at reasonable prices.

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Re:Mozilla Files Suit Against FCC to Protect Net Neutrality by greglindahl on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @01:07PM (#16170193)
OneWeb has funding and has already purchased a bunch of satellites and launches.
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