from the disrupting-the-horrible-isp-market-when? dept.
SpaceX Starlink to go South for first time with planned deployment in Texas:
SpaceX has agreed to provide Internet service to 45 families in a Texas school district in early 2021 and to an additional 90 families later on, the school district announced last week. The announcement by Ector County Independent School District (ECISD) in Odessa said it will be the "first school district to utilize SpaceX satellites to provide Internet for students."
"The project will initially provide free Internet service to 45 families in the Pleasant Farms area of south Ector County," the district said. "As the network capabilities continue to grow, it will expand to serve an additional 90 Ector County families."
The Texas location is notable because the ongoing, limited Starlink beta exists only in the northern US, and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has said an upcoming public beta will only be for the northern US and "hopefully" southern Canada. SpaceX has over 700 Starlink satellites in orbit, and will be able to expand the service area as it deploys more of the nearly 12,000 it has been authorized to launch. In Washington state, Starlink has been deployed to rural homes, a remote tribe, and emergency responders and families in wildfire-stricken areas.
The ECISD announcement said the service will begin "early in 2021" without saying exactly when, but an article by the Odessa American newspaper said it will be in January. The total project cost is $300,000, half of which is being provided by Chiefs for Change, a nonprofit group for school-district leaders, according to the Odessa American. Families who are selected will get Internet service for free for one year, the report said.
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 26 2020, @10:20PM (3 children)
NO ID2020 NO MICROCHIP NO MARK
WO2020060606
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USING BODY ACTIVITY DATA
Look at the patent number, literally, "world order 2020 666." This from the
same guy who is publicly saying he wants to put microchip tracking on every
human on earth to prove you have been vaccinated, to allow you to buy or
sell.. Bill Gates needs to Beg God for forgiveness. Science with out Gods
standards is propelling humanity towards a calamity of biblical proportions.
Even if Bill repents, Elon Musk has made and is rolling out a 5g satellite
grid around the whole earth and brain chips. This is not a joke, this is
some fucked up shit..
- Revelation 13:16:
And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to
receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads.
- Revelation 14:9:
And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man
worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or
in his hand, 10 The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God,
which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he
shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy
angels, and in the presence of the Lamb.
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The Untold Story of JFK's Sister, Rosemary Kennedy, and Her Disastrous Lobotomy
https://people.com/politics/untold-story-of-rosemary-kennedy-and-her-disastrous-lobotomy/ [people.com]
The Forgotten Story Of Rosemary Kennedy, Who Was Lobotomized So That JFK Could Succeed
https://allthatsinteresting.com/rosemary-kennedy-lobotomy [allthatsinteresting.com]
The Truth About Rosemary Kennedy's Lobotomy
A never-before-seen photo surfaces of the forgotten Kennedy, who, after a disastrous
lobotomy, was rarely heard from again
https://people.com/books/rosemary-kennedy-the-truth-about-her-lobotomy/ [people.com]
When Rosemary was 23 years of age, doctors told her father that a form of psychosurgery
known as a lobotomy would help calm her mood swings and stop her occasional violent
outbursts.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosemary_Kennedy#Lobotomy [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 26 2020, @10:29PM (2 children)
Sounds like the 5G rays got into someone's brain already.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 26 2020, @10:36PM
It happens. He'll waste away in a few weeks, now that he's got it in his head. That's just one more that we won't have to depopulate with the COVID19-plandemic, or the COVID21-plandemic. Wait for the Ebola24-plandemic, that will be the one to die for!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 26 2020, @10:38PM
Or even 6G Starlink beta rays.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 26 2020, @11:01PM (3 children)
How did they even calculate that? I figure they'll need a new full ring of satellites, SpaceX can pack 60 per launch. Is that enough? The expected lifetime of those satellites is 5-6 years IIRC, for how long are the schools getting service? How many other customers will be sharing those satellites over their lifetime?
That USD 300k figure sounds like someone pulled it out of their ass.
I don't know about construction costs in the US, but for 300k, maybe they could have gotten another ISP to bring fiber to their door?
Sorry for being so skeptical. America, fuck yeah! Hail Elon!
(Score: 2) by mhajicek on Tuesday October 27 2020, @12:08AM
I can't even get fiber in my Minneapolis suburb. I want SpaceX to shut up and take my money.
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Tuesday October 27 2020, @03:57PM (1 child)
I've got to say, you do have a point with regards to the $300,000 cost. That equates to $2,222 per family, for one year of internet, which would equate to $185/month. That's some expensive internet, twice as expensive as my most expensive point-to-point wireless internet, in the last decade or so. I'm down to about $60 per month for barely good enough internet. Still, if at the end of this project, the families can pay a reasonable amount for good internet, I would say it's well worth it. Odessa is in the middle of the Desert. There is a whole lot of nothing between it and anywhere. It's about 340 miles to DFW or San Antonio from there. Then, there's the nearest "big city" in New Mexico. They're closer to Mexico than any major city center.
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 takyon on Tuesday October 27 2020, @04:55PM
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/10/spacex-starlink-public-beta-begins-its-99-a-month-plus-500-up-front/ [arstechnica.com]
[SIG] 10/28/2017: Soylent Upgrade v14 [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 2) by Rosco P. Coltrane on Tuesday October 27 2020, @04:23AM (6 children)
So what's the price? Traffic shaping to favor Facebook and Google? Privacy invasion and tracking?
TANSTAAFL
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Tuesday October 27 2020, @04:00PM (1 child)
The families get free internet. The school pays $300,000.
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 Freeman on Tuesday October 27 2020, @04:05PM
From the Article:
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 takyon on Tuesday October 27 2020, @05:01PM (3 children)
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/10/spacex-starlink-public-beta-begins-its-99-a-month-plus-500-up-front/ [arstechnica.com]
One-time $500 for terminal/etc. + $100/month
Prices and speeds are subject to change but that's a start.
No data cap. On the privacy front, it's your job to hide your activity from your ISP if you care.
[SIG] 10/28/2017: Soylent Upgrade v14 [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Tuesday October 27 2020, @05:23PM (2 children)
No Data Cap is a big deal, my point-to-point wireless provider has a 330GB or so data cap.
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 takyon on Tuesday October 27 2020, @05:34PM (1 child)
If I'm doing the math right, the low end of 50 Mbps (sustained) is about 16.2 TB per month. So you could do a lot of torrenting in the middle of nowhere. I guess the next big question is how the upload speeds compare.
[SIG] 10/28/2017: Soylent Upgrade v14 [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Tuesday October 27 2020, @07:29PM
The upload speed is likely not going to be comparable to what you could get, but compared to point-to-point wireless, I'm likely getting similar.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/08/spacex-starlink-beta-tests-show-speeds-up-to-60mbps-latency-as-low-as-31ms/ [arstechnica.com] Seems to be a pretty good guide.
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"