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Re:Starlink's Latest Offering: Gigabit Gateways Starting at ... by zamadatix on Monday January 29, 2024 @08:22PM (#39185227)
I assume this is for dedicated unshared bandwidth with no cap since it's for ISP. If that's the case, if it uses the average of one satellite that's 3+ million SpaceX needs to gather to break even (not counting the cost of operations or equipment itself). As far as cost competitiveness installing and maintaining an undersea cable is a worse deal (though preferable if you can afford it). Overall the prices don't shout "ridiculous!" to me by either measure. It actually seems pretty cost competitive and probably not full of 1000% margin or something.

Via another comparison it's a 10x increase vs 1 TB of priority data @40 mbps (250/m) but that's actually a good value considering this is @1000 mbps with no cap. Shooting 10 Gbps (10x cost) to the island, for example, is likely to cost a bit more than it would have to have the island's population all by Starlink individually but they'll get significantly better service as a result.

This is something that's only viable for pocket areas in remote locations though, particularly islands. Dense areas or plain rural areas fit either normal connectivity or traditional Starlink better.

Re:Starlink's Latest Offering: Gigabit Gateways Starting at ... by mr_toad on Monday January 29, 2024 @09:02PM (#39185527)
> This is something that's only viable for pocket areas in remote locations though, particularly islands.

Sounds like it would be suitable for military bases and isolated infrastructure (like power plants).

Re:Starlink's Latest Offering: Gigabit Gateways Starting at ... by a_bonobo on Tuesday January 30, 2024 @12:38AM (#39186734)
would also be very feasible for rich people's boats; these are often remote, and Starlink is already focused very much on that market. A lot of customers who'd easily have 75k flying around.
Re:Starlink's Latest Offering: Gigabit Gateways Starting at ... by BlindEyeHalo on Tuesday January 30, 2024 @05:02AM (#39188252)
This is for ground stations only.
Re:Starlink's Latest Offering: Gigabit Gateways Starting at ... by zamadatix on Monday January 29, 2024 @10:17PM (#39186019)
Military yes, power plants depends more on whether they really need multiple gigabits per second dedicated bandwidth with a million dollar receiving station or they are fine with the bandwidth provided by more traditional style terminals.
Re:Starlink's Latest Offering: Gigabit Gateways Starting at ... by pests on Monday January 29, 2024 @09:22PM (#39185668)
Won't power plants already have connectivity though?

They have to send the power somewhere in the end anyways.

Re:Starlink's Latest Offering: Gigabit Gateways Starting at ... by AtlasBarfed on Monday January 29, 2024 @09:28PM (#39185704)
Are we pretending all of Asia and Africa and Australia and South America are swimming in bandwidth?