There is some kind of mistery with terrestrial networking in US/Canada. I don't see a single technical problems with laying fiber to every single household at all. But AFAIK from a lot of conversations with US and Canada fellows, this assumed as something unreal or insanely expensive. So, there is something else, like some hidden state regulations or whatever with prohibition level of conditions.
Whatever, all in all, looks terrestrial networking is prohibited in North America for some reason.
So, space interent delivery looks pretty reasonable from the business point of view.
Rollout of "space cellular base stations" really looks like failure with initial Starlink approach. IDK, wrong selection of RF band, or underdeveloped communication/tracking protocol, whatever, but Starlink didn't gave expected results. So, there is "plan B". Practically, cellular bands have much better penetration through atmosphere than Starlink 12/40GHz band.
About 10 years ago a lightning strike smoked our phone land line. It was in a trench and maybe 100 yards from the house to the pole. Inquired about the cost to replace it and was told ten thousand dollars. Asked if I could dig the trench and lay the cable myself and they said that they would refuse to hook it into their network.
That's like what I suspect. Some hidden arbitrary regulations / monopolies and all that stuff that prevent any individual/small business from entering networking business.
Here, in Russia broadband internet spreaded like fire by efforts of small companies and even local non-commercial communities all over the country as soon as it become something interesting for regular person. All legislations and licensing was introduced only after the market was saturated. Of course large holdings eventually bought many small businesses, but situation is far from monopoly. Still, it is not a big problem to get a license and start provider business today if you could find a place that have no connection and want to make some money.
many new research projects have shown how to exploit existing coax lines to transmit more than enough data
Unlike even existing coax lines fiber is dirt cheap not only on purchase, but also on ownership cost. It does not rust, it is much more rigid, it unvulrnelable to any solar flares or whatever.
In Russia, f.e. most phone cables was quickly replaced with fiber as soon, as fiber become comparable in cost with copper wires. So, that ADSL era of wired internet was just skipped and we turned from modem connectivity directly to fiber era. IDK, may be that is due to late USSR attempt to wire whole country with fiber, so we had serious fiber production and all respective things so it was easy to switch to fiber.
Ayh have a latop right now (ayh just checked :) peaking out at 850mbps wifi which is far more than enough for streaming multiple devices at 4K (especially when ratioed correctly which is where tech shd go --> router and devices that ratio time versus data and prioritize)
You could have 850mbps, but if you have no service able to stream data to you at that rate, it is senseless to have such rates, really. OK, you could utilise such bandwith copying few Tb of data from notebook to home NAS or vice versa, but it's questionable if you do it often enough to really feel need for such speeds.
There is some kind of mistery with terrestrial networking in US/Canada. I don't see a single technical problems with laying fiber to every single household at all. But AFAIK from a lot of conversations with US and Canada fellows, this assumed as something unreal or insanely expensive. So, there is something else, like some hidden state regulations or whatever with prohibition level of conditions.
Whatever, all in all, looks terrestrial networking is prohibited in North America for some reason.
So, space interent delivery looks pretty reasonable from the business point of view.
Rollout of "space cellular base stations" really looks like failure with initial Starlink approach. IDK, wrong selection of RF band, or underdeveloped communication/tracking protocol, whatever, but Starlink didn't gave expected results. So, there is "plan B". Practically, cellular bands have much better penetration through atmosphere than Starlink 12/40GHz band.
About 10 years ago a lightning strike smoked our phone land line. It was in a trench and maybe 100 yards from the house to the pole. Inquired about the cost to replace it and was told ten thousand dollars. Asked if I could dig the trench and lay the cable myself and they said that they would refuse to hook it into their network.
That's like what I suspect. Some hidden arbitrary regulations / monopolies and all that stuff that prevent any individual/small business from entering networking business.
Here, in Russia broadband internet spreaded like fire by efforts of small companies and even local non-commercial communities all over the country as soon as it become something interesting for regular person. All legislations and licensing was introduced only after the market was saturated. Of course large holdings eventually bought many small businesses, but situation is far from monopoly. Still, it is not a big problem to get a license and start provider business today if you could find a place that have no connection and want to make some money.
Unlike even existing coax lines fiber is dirt cheap not only on purchase, but also on ownership cost. It does not rust, it is much more rigid, it unvulrnelable to any solar flares or whatever.
In Russia, f.e. most phone cables was quickly replaced with fiber as soon, as fiber become comparable in cost with copper wires. So, that ADSL era of wired internet was just skipped and we turned from modem connectivity directly to fiber era. IDK, may be that is due to late USSR attempt to wire whole country with fiber, so we had serious fiber production and all respective things so it was easy to switch to fiber.
You could have 850mbps, but if you have no service able to stream data to you at that rate, it is senseless to have such rates, really. OK, you could utilise such bandwith copying few Tb of data from notebook to home NAS or vice versa, but it's questionable if you do it often enough to really feel need for such speeds.
Well, we are slightly bigger with noticeably lower population density. :)