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0 pointsjimison7y ago0 comments

Perhaps their true market will be for industrial IOT devices that need to connect from all over the world.

If I'm selling large HVAC units with cloud monitoring functionality, it'd be attractive to ship units that are pre-connected to SpaceX's satellite network. I wouldn't have to worry about setting up agreements with multiple cellular providers or having to depend on site-provided Wifi/ethernet.

The point is, those devices could very lucrative for SpaceX without requiring as much bandwidth (no need to stream Netflix).

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dr_orpheus7y ago

There is definitely a market for this. Orbcomm already does this for a lot of machine to machine communication. However, their data rates are quite slow on the order of kbps.

dzhiurgis7y ago

Same with Iridium Certus/Next - their devices are rumoured to be tiny chips (even with current constellation the hotspot is just slightly larger than modern 4G ones).

You don't really need much bandwidth for most IoT apps.

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