[HN Gopher] The plan to give the moon decent wireless coverage
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The plan to give the moon decent wireless coverage
Author : geox
Score : 23 points
Date : 2022-06-08 18:45 UTC (4 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (spectrum.ieee.org)
(TXT) w3m dump (spectrum.ieee.org)
| dh2022 wrote:
| hahaha - the moon will get wireless before rural america gets it!
| hahaha!
| umeshunni wrote:
| The population density of the moon will probably be higher than
| rural America at that point.
| atlasunshrugged wrote:
| I mean, the U.S. has dropped $60 billion or so on rural and
| underserved wireless projects in the last few years, if those
| folks aren't networked in the next years they never will be.
| lelandfe wrote:
| And they just approved $10b more[0]. Unfortunately ISPs have
| a habit of taking that money and running off with it, and
| Ajit Pai was a pretty poor steward of the process.
|
| [0] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/06/10-billion-
| fund-...
| rozap wrote:
| I live 5 minutes from a grocery store, 10 minutes from a town
| of 50k people. Hardly remote by US standards. There is no
| cell coverage, and the only internet option plugs into a
| phone jack. From where I'm sitting, that spending didn't
| translate into much.
|
| Edit: realized you were speaking in future tense. So I guess
| we'll see how it shakes out.
| [deleted]
| whoomp12342 wrote:
| this site of all places should know that money spent in tech
| does not necissarily mean progress
| verdverm wrote:
| https://www.starlink.com/map
| [deleted]
| dane-pgp wrote:
| It's worth considering the maximum number of subscribers per
| cell of Starlink coverage, and how big the cells are.[0]
|
| TL;DR "if everyone in your area lives on 311 acre lots, then
| you should be good."
|
| [0] https://old.reddit.com/r/Starlink/comments/pmwv2u/calcula
| tin...
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