Globalstar SEC filing, Apple to use 85% of its satellite network capacity

Re:Globalstar SEC filing, Apple to use 85% of its satellite ... by walrus01 on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @04:04PM (#32755983)

Current generation globalstar is about the same speed as first gen iridium, which is around the speed of a 2400 bps dialup modem from the late 1980s.

With the current satellites, yes, if they think they have enough capital (at least many hundreds of millions) to launch a new clean sheet of paper design LEO network using the existing globalstar L/S-band spectrum licenses, they could implement something better.

The value of globalstar is not in the existing satellites and earth stations, which are pretty much trash at this point for any modern use except very low data rate M2M data in certain geographically restricted areas. The value is in the existing LEO network operational licenses.

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Re:Globalstar SEC filing, Apple to use 85% of its satellite ... by oneplane on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @05:21PM (#32757099)

Yep, similar value is found on other technically inept solutions that are mostly kept around to keep the license to operate active (since some of those require active use to retain them).

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