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Re:SpaceX Starlink Announces 1M Active Subscribers by gusestrella on Monday December 19, 2022 @06:27PM (#34059341)
These days any announcement from musk companies i wonder how real they are. I think the guy pushes agendas so hard and so many folks enamored with him that they would say anything wether any truth to it.
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Re:SpaceX Starlink Announces 1M Active Subscribers by Zigurd on Friday December 23, 2022 @12:16PM (#34108243)
You can count on the numbers being at least roughly real. But it's not that encouraging:

- 1M is less than 1% of Verizon customers. Terrestrial fiber and mmWave FWA will be faster and cheaper.

- Scaling issues are already apparent: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/09/ookla-starlinks-...

- To serve 1M customers, it takes launching about 4500 satellites to get 3500 current working satellites with a lifespan of about 5 years. Everything depends on the next gen satellites completely changing that equation.

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