Comment on Starlink Direct to Cell

ugjka@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• cyberpunk007@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  How do you know this?

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  • ugjka@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    androidauthority.com/t-mobile-starlink-satellite-…

    In a tweet following the launch event, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk revealed that Starlink V2 satellites will reach 2 to 4 Mb/s per cell zone. That’s enough for texting and perhaps voice calls, but not much else. Remember, this bandwidth will have to be shared by all users in the cell zone.

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    • cyberpunk007@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Ah nice. Well a single 1080p steam on Netflix consumes about 4Mbps. VoIP calls about 1.7Mbps.

      It’ll do but yeah it’s not great. It’s definitely enough for surfing the net.

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      • ugjka@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Weather conditions will probably heavily impact what speeds you will get, and you can’t use this indoors or in vehicle

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