>>13878749Thunderfoot licks my anus. This guy will have so much egg on his face in ten years and he will be totally oblivious to it.
Like 90% of that stupid ass video was absolutely irrelevant fluff. He is off by an insane margin on his bandwidth prices. Dedicated 10gbps interconnect costs me $300/month. I'm sure Elon can get even better prices.
Spacex has 2240 mhz of bandwidth, you can double that because they can do both right hand and left handed polarization. Spectral efficiency right now is 6 bits per hz. Wifi6 is 20 and 4g cell is 30 so he has plenty of headroom to increase throughput with better radios. Some of the newest satellites are testing radios at 12 bits per hz.
At the current orbital each satellite has a coverage area of about 600 miles in diameter. So despite what thunderbutt says about satellites needing to be right overhead he's full of shit. Future satellites could have an even larger coverage area.
Anyhow after overhead error correction etc 20gbps is a reasonable figure for current gen satellites with his current allotment of spectrum.
Average post covid stream everything household is using about 400GB of data per month, an average speed of 1.2mbps, or about 6mbps during peak hours. That's about 3300 households per satellite and I expect this to double in the near future. Households that use satellite tv use less than half that bandwidth.
There are currently about 110 starlink satellites serving the US at any time so about 330,000 stream everything us homes could be satisfactorily served. This should double as the faster bitrate is adopted and will then scale roughly linearly with the number of satellites launched. Once the full constellation is up at the faster speeds that's about 17,000,000 us homes that could be served with $20b per year in revenue. A similar number could be served in the EU, Australia perhaps 12m homes. Asia, Oceania, South America, Africa, Middle east.
I see $50b/year revenue as being quite feasible.
