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    1. LordLederhosen on

      I am excited for Starlink competition, but I can’t believe they still have “project” in the official public facing name.

    2. sf_Lordpiggy on

      how embarrassing for a space launch company to require a 3rd party to launch their sats.

    4. TokyoMegatronics on

      i so look forward to the day where i can look up at the sky and see naught but starlink, amazon, oneweb and starsale satellite clusters clogging up the sky

      “yes we ruined astronomy, but you can get internet from us for £75 (vs way less with literally anyone else)”

    5. 7fingersDeep on

      Starlink needs competition but fucking hell this ain’t it. Kuiper is going up so slowly they’ll never reach operational levels because they’ll have to replace their first satellites before they even get going – those things only last 4-5 years.

    6. HKTLE on

      Nice nice , I hope they do it a bit 🤏🏾 of friendly competition always helps technological breakthroughs and innovations.

    8. ledow on

      I’ve always refused to touch Starlink because it’s associated with you-know-who.

      I live quite rurally (I have “broadband” DSL but it’s quite slow by modern standards) and work in IT and I have a focus at the moment of being “utility-independent”. That includes ISPs. I don’t want to be reliant on a single ISP, or underlying provider (e.g. UK’s BT!). I moved into that house just over 2 years ago with the plan of being independent of any one provider.

      So my router is a VDSL / Ethernet / 5G router with dual SIM cards in it and I’d love to have the Ethernet uplink be to something like a satellite Internet.

      But I can’t bring myself to touch Starlink. Ever.

      So I’ve been waiting for Project Kuiper for years now. It’s taking too long.

      I bet when it arrives that I have problems with it – problems that will all be the things they’re NOT mentioning in their specifics.

      e.g. going with Starlink as an example:

      – Expensive
      – Consumer boxes only have Wifi, not Ethernet.
      – Immobile
      – Traffic-shaping (I don’t mind a limit, but don’t give me 100Mbps and then tell me that I can’t use 100Mbps).

      Project Kuiper is sketchy on exactly these details too, and you’d think they’d know how much they were going to charge by now, right?

      I also don’t want any ties to Amazon – I don’t want it tied into my Amazon account or part of Amazon Prime or whatever else. I just want the connection.

      I can see, honestly, that I’ll have the same concerns in another 2 years.

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    10. inderwater on

      Isn’t it great that we’re destined for a future where orbital debris from decommissioned satellites will seal us all in this planet?

      Hooray SpaceX and Amazon! You could have used ferromagnetic materials to aid debris capture but you didn’t!