So there are a few people around the forum with terrible internet. And they always use their data instead of their home internet. And it really goes to show how we still dont have adequate internet even still in some small parts of Canada. Starlink is supposed to fix this. So i am a huge SpaceX fan. They destroy NASA in terms of rockets and reusability. They are currently building a Starship witch is the worlds most powerful reusable rocket. It can hold 100 people and its supposed to bring us to Mars. Elon Musk decided to launch a global satellite ISP as another source of income for SpaceX. The service is called Starlink. Its supposed to bring global high speed gigabit low latency satellite internet to us. You heard me gigabit satellite internet!. Satellite internet sucks right now. Its high latency and you get like 5 download. Starlink uses low earth orbit satellites that talk to each other with laser beams. Its supposed to have less latency than fiber! It is definitely going to fight with 5G. The problem with 5G is that its hard to get towers and run Fiber everywhere. Its supposed to cost 130$ Billion to run fiber for 5G. Starlink is only going to cost about 14$ Billion. Imagine phones having receivers built in and airplanes in the future. That would be cool. Its also one step to bringing broadband to Mars. Amazon's space company Blue Origin and Oneweb have been trying to do the same concept too but Oneweb went bankrupt. SpaceX has reusable rockets so thats an advantage. I don't know why but i just had to share this. It would be great for the whole world to have adequate internet access. Especially during these times.
This is their website. They are supposed to bring coverage in Canada and US in summer of 2020 and global coverage in 2021. Elon Musk has already tested it by sending Twitter tweets through it. The next launch occurs sometime this week and its supposed to bring another 100 satellites into orbit. If anyone is interested and has bad internet already here is their website. The user terminal satellite is estimated to be around 300$ and will be sold sometime in the summer. Way cheaper than the 300000$ ones now.
