Say there's 10,000 of these in space, that's 200,000Gibps or 195Tibps.
I don't think that's enough bandwidth for high speed internet for hundreds of millions of customers.
However I suspect it'll be cheaper and faster for sparsley populated areas. With Urban areas still leveraging physical wires.
"Hrmmmmm, if we put 100 satellite into this orbital plane, we'll cover 74m people, 25m of which have shit internet, 5m pissed off Canadians, and with an average monthly spend on data of _____, and on average using Xgb/s in peak hours, etc." But if we shift the plane a bit to the left we'll get....
I also wonder how they'll price discriminate it all. Flat rate really doesn't make sense if they're constrained for capacity.
Just running the math, as 2 people that uses ~250gb/m total, that's 2000gib / 2.7m seconds in a month, we're using on average .0007Gibps.
(Badly) assuming perfect distribution of demand, each 20Gibps could support 30k connections like us.
While there are 10k of these satellites in space, I'm not sure how many (if any) are overlapping the same area. They're probably hovering over an ocean half the time.
Starlink isn't for people who hate their Big3 ISP. It's for people who wish they had a Big3 ISP to hate.
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