This reminds me of my plan to move to the moon and solve my internet issues with fiber optic cables and how it was ruined because of unsanctioned Chinese flying satellites over the continental United States and slamming into my cables and destroying them. This weird shit can only make things even worse for when I try my second attempt, thanks Jeff Bezos you fucker
Here's an idea, use your billions into rolling out more fiber and fiber hubs instead of into launch costs.
Low-orbit satellite networks have the potential to provide global connectivity at lower latencies than any other network currently in existence, including High Frequency trading. It would be foolish not to invest in this.
Where could I find an article or paper that describes such? I'd genuinely like to have a detailed understanding of the benefits to what you're suggesting. At this point in time Amazon is a questionable company and space debris is becoming an existential threat to space exploration, so I'm hesitant to be on board.
The problem with that is local municipalities that have deals with telecoms to allow them a monopoly. I'm sure that in such cases getting permits to dig and install new cable, or even to buy and use existing infrastructure that's not currently powered, is like pulling teeth.
IIRC this is the biggest hurdle that Google ran into when trying to roll out Google fiber and the primary reason why it hasn't become an option in most places. Not sure that I'd consider satellite ideal, but it might be the only avenue in which someone trying to break into the telecom biz can actually compete, which is equal parts hilarious and sad because that means that the market is so locked down that even companies that can afford to launch satellite payloads can't compete with the long-time players, lol.
Funnily enough, Amazon already has a satellite infrastructure and it's one of the most ridiculous AWS services they are offering, so I don't see how they couldn't do satellite internet at this point. If it has decent speeds, it would be a great way how to get decent internet in areas that can't have Point-to-MultiPoint radio connections due of trees, buildings or long distance or can't run any DSL internet due of attenuation properties of copper cables and is too far away from an exchange point.
Are we just going to collectively ignore this post, then?
Here: https://people.inf.ethz.ch/asingla/papers/hotnets18-satnet.pdf
Also some slides to go along with it: https://ndal.ethz.ch/courses/data_fi_2019/lectures/satelliteNets.pdf
Amazon isn't the only contender. Others include SpaceX, OneWeb and LeoSat, the article actually also mentions some more.
Admittedly the aspect of debris is not addressed in this papers, and the course I had on the subject also didn't mention more about it so I'm not very well informed on that matter.
Wasn't Google already doing something like this, but with high-altitude balloons? Wasn't called Project Loom?
The goal of Project Loon is to bring connectivity to remote rural areas, developing countries and to places struck by natural disaster, such as Puerto Rico in 2017.
LEO satellites are commercially oriented however. They aim to provide global connectivity AND high speed network, but not as an altruistic effort.
iirc SpaceX were looking into something similar as well.
SpaceX is building StarLink. They launched two test satellites already and will start the main constellation soon.
Its not that its a bad post its just that i have no words
What the fuck this is just ridiculous.
Yeaaah I'm really not a fan of potentially stranding humanity on Earth for millennia to come just so that some people can get past their own corrupt institutions for better internet access rather than address the problem head-on.
Add onto that the fact that 1.it's Amazon and 2.multiple other companies are planning the same thing, thus increasing the risk of collision and making multiple redondant networks rather than a single optimal one. That's just a disaster waiting to happen.
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