OK, so now I get why Starlink is so interesting:
- 10B$US vs 150B$US for the switch to 5G (and that might just be the fiber build out, no hardware at each end… need to re-watch to know for sure.).
- done in 10 years, probably in limited form to very spendy customers (stock trading advantages of milliseconds = $$$$)
- expects revenue to exceed NASA’s budget.
- expects monthly cost for residential users to be subsidized by very expensive services to extreme time-sensitive users (stock trading is the obvious first adapters)
- residential user need a pizza box sized, thin enough to mount on a vehicle, attic mounted, 200$US
Ummmm…. if I owned physical plant, or wires in the ground, it might be time to sell. But what to I know?
