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SpaceX now plans for 5 million Starlink customers in US, up from 1 million:
SpaceX has asked the US for permission to deploy up to 5 million user terminals for its Starlink satellite-broadband network in the US after nearly 700,000 people in the country registered interest in the service.
SpaceX in March received a Federal Communications Commission license for up to 1 million user terminals (i.e. satellite dishes) in the United States. That would allow for 1 million homes to receive the service, but SpaceX now wants to quintuple that number.
"SpaceX Services requests this increase in authorized units due to the extraordinary demand for access to the Starlink non-geostationary orbit satellite system," the company told the FCC in a license-change request on Friday. "Despite the fact that SpaceX has yet to formally advertise this system's services, nearly 700,000 individuals represented in all 50 states signed up over a matter of just days to register their interest in said services at www.starlink.com. To ensure that SpaceX is able to accommodate the apparent demand for its broadband Internet access service, SpaceX Services requests a substantial increase in the number of authorized units."
[...] SpaceX has FCC permission to launch nearly 12,000 satellites in low-Earth orbits that will allow for much lower latencies than traditional satellite services. SpaceX has launched 540 Starlink satellites so far, with its next launch set to increase that number to about 600.
Amazon last week received US approval to launch 3,236 low-Earth orbit satellites for its similar "Project Kuiper" broadband service.
(Score: 3, Funny) by DannyB on Tuesday August 04 2020, @05:27PM (8 children)
Psssssssssst . . . . Shhhhhhh!
(whispered)
This is not well known in the US, but . . .
(looks both ways, be sure nobody is listening . . .)
. . . there are other people outside of the US! Yes, really! In fact 96 % of the world population is outside the US.
I was once long ago given a [citation needed] over on the green site, but I used this sooper seekrit process known as dividing the world population (google for it) by the US population (ddg.gg for it).
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Tuesday August 04 2020, @05:41PM (5 children)
Considering the reply was on an article about how many US customers SpaceX is planning on having, your comment is off-topic at best, flamebait at worst.
I would also guess, that they're starting with US customers, because they see a potential market here. Also, they don't have to work on the political / business side of doing business in a different country just yet. I'm sure they'll get to it, once they up and going. Then again, maybe I've just not read-up enough on the Starlink thing and they already have it in the works.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday August 04 2020, @06:23PM (4 children)
<no-sarcasm>
There would be complications to starting service outside the US.
Approvals from other countries' equivalent of our FCC.
In some places, greasing the right palms.
Billing is an entire can of worms on its own.
</no-sarcasm>
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Tuesday August 04 2020, @06:36PM (3 children)
I didn't put your post through the DannyB filter, because I hadn't actually looked at who wrote the comment. Which really kind of detracts from your message. Unless your message is Anarchy/confusion.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday August 05 2020, @12:26AM (2 children)
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Wednesday August 05 2020, @12:47AM (1 child)
I meant his penchant for sarcasm. Which is indistinguishable from random crazy person on the internet.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 3, Touché) by DannyB on Wednesday August 05 2020, @02:11PM
I thought the fact that I program in Java for a living was a dead giveaway.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Tuesday August 04 2020, @05:43PM (1 child)
PssssSSSSSssttsssssstttt
Try reading and understanding the summary or even just the headline next time. They have to apply for different permits for each country. For example, ACMA for Australia.
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(Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday August 05 2020, @02:14PM
Yes, I totally understand that.
What I wrote was about strawman who thinks the US might be the only market. And that market might be insufficient to be truly disruptive of AT&T, may they rest in . . . oh, nevermind.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.