3+ Billion Potential SpaceX Starlink Customers

SpaceX Starlink has 1578 satellites in orbit which have combined download capacity of 26 terabits per second. If this download capacity could be perfectly distributed it would enable 260,000 people to have maxed out 100 Mbps simultaneous downloads. Most people will average about 10-20% of their available capacity when they are actively using their systems. …

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100 Gigabit per Second Wireless P2P Communication is Near

BridgeComm, a leader in optical wireless communications, announced it has developed high-speed optical communications of speeds beyond 100GB per second and will offer point-to-point demos at the Hampton Inn in Sneads Ferry, NC, in conjunction with a global conference April 6-15. This project, which has already confirmed 100gbps connectivity in the lab, is enabled by …

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SpaceX Starlink Already Matches Cable Broadband Internet Service

US SpaceX Starlink users are getting 100 to 203 Mbps on downlink and around 15 to 33 Mbps on uplink. Latency varies between 20 to 45 milliseconds. There is a startup purchase cost for a Starlink terminal. The terminal costs $499. There about about 800-900 Starlink satellites currently and a full northern hemisphere deployment will …

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SpaceX Starlink Beta Customer Offer is 20-40 ms Latency and Up To 150 Mbps

SpaceX is offering Starlink as a service to beta customers. An email was sent to some of the people who signed up for SpaceX Starlink notifications. The Starlink network has about 888 satellites in low Earth orbit out of over 4,000 SpaceX satellites in the first phase deployment. Expect to see data speeds vary from …

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Elon Musk Tweets Over Starlink and SpaceX Targets Mid-2020 for Starlink Broadband Service

Elon Musk has successfully used Starlink satellites to send some twitter messages. SpaceX president and chief operating officer Gwynne Shotwell said Oct. 22. that SpaceX will start offering broadband service in the United States via its Starlink constellation in mid-2020. SpaceX will have to launch six to eight Starlink satellite launches. SpaceX needs 24 launches …

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Army will use lasers to cubesats for 50 times faster communication

NASA and the US Army have tested 100 megabit per second laser communication with a cubesat. This is 50 times better than 2 megabit per second radio communication to cubesats that are currently used. Optical Communications and Sensor Demonstration (OCSD) CubeSat could be improved to 2.5 gigabits per second with relatively simple upgrades to the …

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Candidate for Governor proposes Michigan wide $1.5 billion high speed internet plan

Candidate for Governor of Michigan proposes $1.5 billion statewide internet connection plan. El-Sayed’s proposal would involve devoting “$1.5 billion to developing broadband networks through public-public partnerships,” even though that number is “probably not enough to connect all of the 250,000 households without internet.” In Michigan, 40 percent of urban residents don’t have access to high-speed …

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South Korea getting 10 Gigabit per second internet and targets 50% 10 Gbps coverage by 2022

South Korea is starting to commercialize 10-gigabit (Gb) transfer speeds for its online network systems, which is 10 times faster than Giga Internet, the fastest broadband service currently available, the ICT ministry said Sunday. The Ministry of Science and ICT said it will work closely with local IT firms to adopt 10 Gb service, considered …

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The fight for true broadband competition in the USA

New financial disclosures for a November ballot initiative show that a group backed by private internet providers [including Comcast] spent just over $900,000 to try and block city-owned broadband service in Fort Collins, Colorado. The big spenders were nonetheless defeated by a citizens’ group that spent only $15,000 to support the bond measure, which passed …

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FCC repeals net neutrality and now FCC will fight several states over it

The Federal Communications Commission voted Thursday end net neutrality rules, which required service providers to treat all internet traffic equally. Politicians from California, Washington and New York said Thursday they’ll use a mix of legislative action and legal moves to fight the FCC’s repeal of net neutrality regulation. Scott Wiener, a California state senator, said …

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FCC Proposed 10 Mbps wireless download speed is Nigeria’s download speed

Under a new FCC proposal, any area able to obtain wireless speeds of at least 10 Mbps down, 1 Mbps would be deemed good enough for American consumers. Under the previous FCC, wireless was deemed important, but not yet anywhere near a suitable replacement for fixed-line broadband, especially in more remote areas where cellular connectivity …

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