Except they still haven’t called the lodge cost problem. Just because they own the launch mechanism, doesn’t mean there isn’t a cost associated with it. You still have a cost negative at that point unless you can figure out a way to make it positive even if it’s on a different company.
> On Nov 16, 2018, at 07:02, Carl Peterson <[email protected]> wrote: > > What are you basing cost effective on? Launch costs? Satellite cost? > Ground Station Cost? CPE? > > I'm pretty sure SpaceX can take care of the first two. The issue with launch > costs is there isn't enough volume to support high frequency low cost > launches, except that they solve their own problem by becoming their own > customer. Satellite cost gets solved by volume. Ground Stations are pretty > solvable. The big issue that I see is the CPE side. I don't think they > understand the difficulty of installing/maintaining for the residential > market. There will be massive uptake for DIA like services, but the > residential side is going to need some sort of local ecosystem and CPE costs > won't be workable for quite awhile. > >> On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 5:19 AM Matt Hoppes >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> I honestly don’t see this being cost effective to keep up and operational. >> >> Maybe I’m wrong. >> >> Not worried about competition. Have you seen how poorly Comcast gets rated? >> >> And if it does work - as has been said - now I can backhaul to places faster >> and more efficiently. >> >>> On Nov 16, 2018, at 06:12, Carl Peterson <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> For the rural market perhaps, but we don't really do the rural market. I'd >>> be more worries about other people doing exactly what I'm thinking about so >>> instead of just competing with Comcast, (And with the Verizon steamroller >>> coming down the pipe), we will be competing with them and 100 other small >>> ISPs who can suddenly cover markets all over the US with just a few local >>> techs in each market. I think it will be great for the internet in the >>> long run but I'd like to get out ahead of it. >>> >>> >>> >>>> On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 9:16 AM Robert <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> You don't see a problem competing against it? Isn't it going to be end >>>> user/last mile service? >>>> >>>> On 11/15/18 5:16 AM, Carl Peterson wrote: >>>> > It would be a big mess for a short time but these are really low so it >>>> > would de-orbit quickly. I'm really interested in what this would do for >>>> > building a decentralized WISP/MDU ISP. If I get PTP Gig or 10Gig from >>>> > anywhere to anywhere it would make building/expanding an ISP a whole lot >>>> > easier. >>>> > >>> -- >>> AF mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >> -- >> AF mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > > > -- > Carl Peterson > > PORT NETWORKS > > 401 E Pratt St, Ste 2553 > > Baltimore, MD 21202 > > (410) 637-3707 > > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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