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Satellite smartphone internet is still sci fi.

This is extremely low bandwidth and intended for sending extremely high latency text chats. Elon said in the presentation that it could be as much as 30 mins between hitting send and the message going through.

This competes with existing stuff from existing satellite providers.

It’s really really cool, and doesn’t need to be full on smartphone satellite internet to fulfill that coolness!



His 30 minute example was when there are only a few satellites in space. Once many are active, it would allegedly become near-realtime.




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