Amazon Leo falling further behind Starlink by the day

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Crowley said:
At least Jeff is not a racist homophobic woman hating nazi who calls his kids weird names! (I might have missed a few adjectives)
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Fact is that Leo will be equivalent to Starlink in 2-3 years. The fanboys claim nobody can do that. Pathetic.
 
purrr said:
Fact is that Leo will be equivalent to Starlink in 2-3 years. The fanboys claim nobody can do that. Pathetic.
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In 2-3 years Leo might be where Starlink is today. Starlink won't be standing still and waiting for Leo to catch up.
 
I've been inanimately involved with both networks. The issue is not the technology by either, both are pretty good.

As the article pointed out , it's a function of launch capacity. There is not enough launch capacity available for Kuiper/Leo to get the required number of birds in the sky in the required timeframe.

But this is a function of time, they'll get there (as will the new Chinese fleets, BTW).

For now Starlink have a massive advantage, being first to market. Ford was also first to market, yet today your probably buy European or Eastern.
 
Jola said:
It will take a lot longer than 2-3 years to be where Starlink is today.

SpaceX has a launch of about 20 satellites almost every week.
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True - but Amazon doesn't really need global coverage to be competitive, especially in SA.
 
purrr said:
Erm, only need so many satellites to cover everything. What do you mean?
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bwana said:
I think Leo being where Starlink is today will be plenty.
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The number of satelittes affect the total number of clients that can be supported. More satelittes, means smaller cells, means more total aggregate bandwidth available. Or alternatively smaller cells means less customers per cell means more bandwidth per customer.

So they don't need as many sats as starlink if they have less customers than starlink to deliver the same level of service. Sure long term they will need as many as Starlink but they can ramp to get there.
 
jannievanzyl said:
I've been inanimately involved with both networks. The issue is not the technology by either, both are pretty good.

As the article pointed out , it's a function of launch capacity. There is not enough launch capacity available for Kuiper/Leo to get the required number of birds in the sky in the required timeframe.

But this is a function of time, they'll get there (as will the new Chinese fleets, BTW).

For now Starlink have a massive advantage, being first to market. Ford was also first to market, yet today your probably buy European or Eastern.
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Right, but Ford dominated for 15-20 years and this has an astronomically higher barrier to entry pardon the pun.
 
purrr said:
Erm, only need so many satellites to cover everything. What do you mean?
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It’s not only numbers of boxes in the sky that counts. The quality of those boxes and their interconnection is a huge factor, not to mention ground stations.
 
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