Starlink will disrupt mobile and fibre operators in South Africa — Vodacom veteran

Reminds me of the "TV is evil" argument in the 1960s and 1970s. We were prevented on seeing the Moon landing due to some narrow-minded bureaucrat
 
Sopbeen said:
We'll need way more than 1 ground station, as they do get saturated as well.

The PoP will eventually become one. They just plop a few dishes on top of Teraco, or nearby it. It won't make sense to only have a station in Lesotho, then route ALL za traffic to jhb via fibre, its going to be too expensive and unreliable. Teraco has all the major providers with their cache's right there. Peering is cheap.

I'd be willing to bet we will end up having stations in JHB and Cape Town. Current latency on Starlink (~40-60ms) is higher than what they target/get elsewhere (sub ~20ms).
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SA adopted Disruption in 2018.
 

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Sopbeen said:
We'll need way more than 1 ground station, as they do get saturated as well.

The PoP will eventually become one. They just plop a few dishes on top of Teraco, or nearby it. It won't make sense to only have a station in Lesotho, then route ALL za traffic to jhb via fibre, its going to be too expensive and unreliable. Teraco has all the major providers with their cache's right there. Peering is cheap.

I'd be willing to bet we will end up having stations in JHB and Cape Town. Current latency on Starlink (~40-60ms) is higher than what they target/get elsewhere (sub ~20ms).
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After 2030, ground stations will be less and less important, unless the data you are looking for is in that specific part of the World. Undersea cables are slow compared to optical links between satellites. Satellite link technology is improving every year. And when Starship goes into service in a year or two, connections will really go fast and bandwidth will be measured in Terrabit instead of Giga as we do now. 10 years from now, undersea fibre will be to expensive to maintain and slow in moving data. Musk knows that and is already dreaming about entire data centers hosted in space
 
wingnut771 said:
Problem comes later with bandwidth IMHO. Arent there some countries in Africa where sales have stopped because there is too much congestion?

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The problem is going to come sooner than that when the networks who are trying to crook the public for useless mobile connectivity with half-baked 3G connections figure out they may lose money...
 
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