This means that cell phone towers are getting connected to Starlink dishes. That's an important step in developing the infrastructure, making it far more accessible on the terrestrial side.
This is about direct mobile to satellite connections.
You have to coordinate the bands / frequencies with geographical telecom operators, as you are working on their bough / licensed bands.
Hence, "working with Verizon" etc.
Starlink sat connections don't have 1/1000th of the bandwidth cf multimode fiber to work as mobile network backhaul. So no , they won't be used for that.
And as far as fragility goes, LEO sat connections are much more prone to interferences than fiber optic dug underground.
This means that cell phone towers are getting connected to Starlink dishes. That's an important step in developing the infrastructure, making it far more accessible on the terrestrial side.
This is about direct mobile to satellite connections.
You have to coordinate the bands / frequencies with geographical telecom operators, as you are working on their bough / licensed bands.
Hence, "working with Verizon" etc.
Starlink sat connections don't have 1/1000th of the bandwidth cf multimode fiber to work as mobile network backhaul. So no , they won't be used for that.
And as far as fragility goes, LEO sat connections are much more prone to interferences than fiber optic dug underground.
Thanks for sharing.
I did some reseach and discovered that they are launching Starlink satellites with this capability.