Comments on: SpaceX inks Starlink deals with India’s two largest telecom operators https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/spacex-inks-starlink-deals-with-indias-two-largest-telecom-operators/ Thu, 13 Mar 2025 04:07:34 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: GeorgeC https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/spacex-inks-starlink-deals-with-indias-two-largest-telecom-operators/#comment-1563833 Thu, 13 Mar 2025 04:07:34 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=112793#comment-1563833 It sure is interesting that the Last Mile Problem in telecom is solved by making it the last 100 miles problem.

]]> By: Dick Eagleson https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/spacex-inks-starlink-deals-with-indias-two-largest-telecom-operators/#comment-1563790 Wed, 12 Mar 2025 23:59:24 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=112793#comment-1563790 OneWeb’s architectural chickens are coming home to roost. Greg Wyler deliberately chose not to make OneWeb independent of ground-based link infrastructure out of the forlorn hope he could thereby appeal to the censorious Russians and Chinese – who would not countenance anything that could get around their Great Firewalls and “content moderation.” Both chose to ban OneWeb instead.

Starlink had the same limitation in its early days, but Elon’s plan was always to make the constellation independent of all but end-user ground equipment ASAP not only to speed national service roll-outs in future but also to serve the aviation, maritime and military markets OneWeb could not address. As soon as SpaceX could deploy on-orbit laser links aboard its birds that transition was underway. It is now effectively complete.

That allows Starlink to quickly serve new clients anywhere it is not geo-fenced by SpaceX. India, now unfenced, and the Falklands, apparently never fenced in the first place, can, thus, get service as soon as end-user ground equipment becomes available.

]]> By: Patrick Underwood https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/spacex-inks-starlink-deals-with-indias-two-largest-telecom-operators/#comment-1563765 Wed, 12 Mar 2025 22:06:48 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=112793#comment-1563765 Posted to wrong story. I don’t think I did that, actually… I got the weird “you are posting too fast” message, hit the back button, saw my post, and hit send.

]]> By: Patrick Underwood https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/spacex-inks-starlink-deals-with-indias-two-largest-telecom-operators/#comment-1563764 Wed, 12 Mar 2025 22:04:49 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=112793#comment-1563764 Interesting grammatical trap I learned from my lawyer wife: “Meat is hung. Men are hanged.”

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