Show threadKevin Karhan Apr 12, 2023

@MarcinW @sundogplanets +9001%

Wasteful #SATCOM like #Starlink will be used as an excuse to not install #FTTB /#FTTH...

That being said all Offerings - from #Eutelsat #tooway to #Iridium, #Inmarsat, #O3b, #Intelsat, #SESbroadband, etc. don't really aim at #B2C beyond the most desperate and affluent and only have a nieche for ocean-crossing ships and remote installations on the polar regions and as fallback when #3G / #4G / #5G and landlines are down.

Show threadKevin Karhan Jan 10, 2023
@DrGeraintLlanfrancheta @RouxJ
#SESbroadband and #EutelsatTooway do function and in fact the cell-based design of #Starlink is already being used for decades by Eutelsat #Tooway on KA-SAT (9°E) based off a patents and tech from #ViaSat, allowing the Satellite to reuse it's frequency bands several times over using #SDMA ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-division_multiple_access ) on top of frequency and timing multiplex, allowing a bandwith of 38GBit/s across it's 82 Spotbeams.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/KA-SAT
Space-division multiple access - Wikipedia