Shared spectrum, low power transmitters, high latency and limited max bandwidth.
It's going to be "fun" for anyone who depends on something in orbit
It's going to be "fun" for anyone who depends on something in orbit
You still have to go up, over, down, across wire, back up, over and down again
you're going to be paying a 25 to 50 ms latency on everything and that depends on having the dish tracking stuff working perfectly. (it is vastly better than the GEO stuff i've had to use in the past. but a replacement for fibre in general use. nope.)
oh and weather is still going to poop on your signal
the speed of light in a mostly vacuum could (provided their meshing algorithms are up to it) make latency comparable but MEO sats already have a 125ms rtt time halving that distance isn't going to get rid of that penalty.
Sorry, was being an idiot. Latency does of course tend to mean a round trip, not just here to there.
"Why SpaceX is Making Starlink"
TL;DR -- satellites can be faster than cables in certain cases
Also marketing videos are always going to show best theoretical case. They are not going to show a cloudy day in a high contention network in a region not favoured by the orbit gods.