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.
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.