Re:SpaceX plans Starlink broadband for cars, boats, and planes
by SkyPuncher on Tuesday March 09, 2021 @05:33PM
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In another thread, someone suggested Viasat was costing between $20k and $50k per month.
On a ocean going cargo ship, that is not that much relative to the other costs.
Re:SpaceX plans Starlink broadband for cars, boats, and planes
by briffle on Monday March 08, 2021 @08:49PM
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And my blackberry could already run apps, browse the web, and send quick messages to each other years before the iphone.
Re:SpaceX plans Starlink broadband for cars, boats, and planes
by krageon on Tuesday March 09, 2021 @05:18AM
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To be fair, your iphone doesn't really do anything interesting past what your blackberry did. It's mostly network effects, which used to exist for blackberries and now exist for smartphones. What they're used for by most people is almost indistinguishable from what they used to be used for.
Re:SpaceX plans Starlink broadband for cars, boats, and planes
by ubercore on Monday March 08, 2021 @09:09PM
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Not the same apps, though. In this comparison, it would be "my blackberry already runs iOS apps, but they're a bit slower than the new iphone".
Improvement for sure, and I'd bet on StarLink making a lot of money on this by volume, but it's not going to radically change shipping.
Shipping already does everything that Starlink proponents claim Starlink will enable, i.e., track ships, track cargo, track temperatures in containers. And this data isn't like video, so you don't need a lot of bandwidth for it.
Starlink might make things cheaper than current satellite communications offerings, but this is evolutionary not revolutionary.