Amazon Will Invest Over $10 Billion In Its Satellite Internet Network

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"The Federal Communications Commission declared on Thursday that Amazon may build its ambitious satellite internet system,
which would compete with SpaceX’s Starlink network.

Amazon’s project, known as Kuiper, would see the company launch 3,236 satellites into low Earth orbit.
Amazon says it will deploy the satellites in five phases, with broadband service beginning once it has 578 satellites in orbit.


“We conclude that grant of Kuiper’s application would advance the public interest by authorizing a system designed to increase the availability of
high-speed broadband service to consumers, government, and businesses,” the FCC secretary Marlene Dortch said in its authorization order.

After the FCC announced the authorization, Amazon said that it “will invest more than $10 billion” into Kuiper.

“There are still too many places where broadband access is unreliable or where it doesn’t exist at all. Kuiper will change that. Our $10 billion investment will create jobs and infrastructure around the United States that will help us close this gap,” Amazon senior vice president Dave Limp said in a statement.

The company has not outlined a timeline for Kuiper and the FCC said the company has not finished the satellites’ design.
But Morgan Stanley has declared the high-speed internet network has the potential to be a ”$100 billion opportunity” for Jeff Bezos’ company.

Kuiper is poised to go toe-to-toe with SpaceX’s Starlink network of high-speed internet satellites, which Elon Musk’s company has been steadily launching for the past year.
SpaceX has launched more than 500 Starlink satellites and aims to begin offering direct-to-consumer broadband service later this year."

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Amazon vs Tesla
Bezos vs Musk

You gotta love a good space battle, even if no lasers or phasers are used.
Maybe not Star Wars, but Satellite Wars? Orbit Wars? Billionaire Battles???


https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/30/fcc...-build-kuiper-satellite-internet-network.html
 
In July 2019, Amazon received permission to launch satellites. The plan was to launch 1,500 satellites by 2026. The latest news I heard about the tests of Blue Origin launch vehicles always contained the words delayed, postponed, etc. In official statements, the company insists it is concerned about the health of its employees in the wake of the pandemic.
But I think that with such a pace they will have to delegate the launch of the Kuiper part to other companies. There are really many new companies now that can offer this service. But on this scale, it will be a lot of fun if they have to go to the competitors they wanted to bypass for help)
 
Gosh, the low earth orbit area is going to be crowded with football satellites. I don't know if I care who succeeds as I have AT&T gigabit now and love it but better speeds for all is a much needed thing for the future.
 
A group of British and Japanese engineers from University College London, research companies Xtera and KDDI Research have recorded a new world record for Internet speed: 178 TB/sec. This speed is enough to download the entire Netflix video library in one second.

Such a high speed has been achieved due to a new technology capable of transmitting a signal at a frequency of 16.9 THz, which significantly increases the throughput of the fiber-optic cable.

This means that there will be no need to lay new cables to implement record-breaking Internet speeds for the mass consumer. It will only be necessary to improve the amplifiers every 100 km of the laid fiber-optic cable.

Today, the highest internet speed available for ordinary users reaches 10 Gb / s. It can only be used by residents of small areas in Japan, the United States, and New Zealand.

NASA's Internet network (ESnet), used by scientists and researchers, provides speeds of 400 Gb/s.

In May 2020, engineers from Australian universities Monash, Swinburne, and RMIT reported that they were able to achieve speeds of 44.2 TB/s.

But this record was also broken a few months ago by a group of researchers from Japan: the Internet speed was fixed at 150 TB/sec.


Based on this, I would not assume that anyone does not care about speed.
 
TommyJ said:
... Based on this, I would not assume that anyone does not care about speed.
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A current cable system DOCSIS 3.1 can already deliver gigabit speeds. It's just that people are choosing not to pay for the top tier. 100 Mbps is more than enough for 4K and most PPV streamers struggle to get above 30 Mbps. It's like with cars. The high end sports cars can get to the high-100's easily but, if you can't drive over 70-75 legally, there's no real point to them unless you're track or drag strip bound.

Not that I'd spit at a Neunelfer but there's a reason the market has shifted to the crossovers and the SUV's.
 
DLD said:
A current cable system DOCSIS 3.1 can already deliver gigabit speeds. It's just that people are choosing not to pay for the top tier. 100 Mbps is more than enough for 4K and most PPV streamers struggle to get above 30 Mbps. It's like with cars. The high end sports cars can get to the high-100's easily but, if you can't drive over 70-75 legally, there's no real point to them unless you're track or drag strip bound.

Not that I'd spit at a Neunelfer but there's a reason the market has shifted to the crossovers and the SUV's.
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Unfortunately, that market started shifting over 25 year ago. I hated watching Mazda, Nissan and Toyota all bow out of the US sports car market back in the mid 90's. I even remember, at one point, maybe in the 00's, Nissan started buying last gen/1990's 300Z's back, refurbing them and selling them again for $$$. And I was really disappointed during my 30's, when I was making good money and could afford a "toy", that there were no real sports cars being introduced, at least in the US market(never really dug the 350Z/370Z that much).

I did have a chance to be in front of one of the heads of Mazda back in the late summer at an IMSA race, shooting an interview with him, and when we were done, I looked squarely at him and said they need to bring the RX-7 back. Let's just say that I didn't get the response that I really wanted to hear...
 
Run&Gun said:
Unfortunately, that market started shifting over 25 year ago. I hated watching Mazda, Nissan and Toyota all bow out of the US sports car market back in the mid 90's. I even remember, at one point, maybe in the 00's, Nissan started buying last gen/1990's 300Z's back, refurbing them and selling them again for $$$. And I was really disappointed during my 30's, when I was making good money and could afford a "toy", that there were no real sports cars being introduced, at least in the US market(never really dug the 350Z/370Z that much).

I did have a chance to be in front of one of the heads of Mazda back in the late summer at an IMSA race, shooting an interview with him, and when we were done, I looked squarely at him and said they need to bring the RX-7 back. Let's just say that I didn't get the response that I really wanted to hear...
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maybe they did you a favor by not tempting you into a depreciating investment

although I guess some of these cars appreciate? but maybe only if you don't drive them...

from NYT a few days ago: "The power and prestige of cars like a 1990 Lamborghini might compel some owners to take a Sunday drive. But with odometers this low, the investment would take a hit... A 1993 Cizeta V16T with less than 600 miles is headed to auction."

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Run&Gun said:
Unfortunately, that market started shifting over 25 year ago...
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I recall (a late) Luke Perry on Jay Leno (I think) talking about how his truck was cool, because it was so powerful, and how all those tiny sports cars are pathetic in comparison. And that had to be early 90's.

Oddly enough, modern electromagnetic types of suspension make sports cars feasible daily drivers. If someone remembers the old line about 911's, "You drive over a matchstick and it feels like you're driving over a rail". In 2005, Porsche came out with PASM (active suspension management) and now 911's can be used to pick up kids from school. At least, from K-8. This may be why there are several new sporty models have been out - from Veloster N and BRZ on the lower end to Supra, Civic R, Golf R, 400Z in the middle and Corvette, Boxster/Cayman on the high. Of course, with twin turbos and the electric twin chargers/turbochargers, power is getting very cheap too.

Side story - when the current generation Civic R came out in 2016, one British car dude took it for a spin in Germany (because every sports car has to ride on a no-speed-limit Autobahn). Except, after driving on the Autobahn, he went up into those picturesque Bavarian Alps villages with cobblestone streets. He placed a large drink into a cup holder and drove over those rocks on the softest suspension setting possible. His line was something like this, "The previous Civic R would have your pants soaked in coffee".
 
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