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Re:Two giants in the satellite telecom industry join forces ... by breckenedge on Wednesday May 01, 2024 @03:10PM (#40227868)
If space-based telecom moves from GEO to LEO, then there’s no reason for GEO telecoms to exist anymore.
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Re:Two giants in the satellite telecom industry join forces ... by Gare on Wednesday May 01, 2024 @03:44PM (#40228381)
Satellite TV is probably not going away anytime soon.
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Re:Two giants in the satellite telecom industry join forces ... by simfree on Thursday May 02, 2024 @02:07AM (#40233184)
Dish and DirecTV are rapidly bleeding customers, the latter is not planning to launch any new birds for this dying business. It might only be a decade before this industry consolidates further into the remaining satellites, with some large providers going extinct entirely.
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Re:Two giants in the satellite telecom industry join forces ... by MichaelZuo on Wednesday May 01, 2024 @03:29PM (#40228160)
The real estate would still be worth quite a bit, so even in the worst case they will just move on to be literal real estate holding companies.
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