Posts by awomanmanhasaname

Project Kuiper becomes Amazon Leo as satellite network trickles into orbit

Re: Launch licence deadline?

You're being too pessimistic.

One sat up there is enough to allow an extension. Providing service more so.

I'm betting on just losing spectrum priority (but they are already last in line so it doesn't matter anyway)

Re: Launch licence deadline?

My bet is on Amazon going to the back of the line on spectrum priority rights.

They are already last behind other providers.

Network operator ponders building a new submarine cable – on land

They are settlement free peers.

So it depends on who's downstream.

I'm sure SEACOM doesn't intend to pay Liquid for IPT.

I'm guessing though that if SEACOM builds, they'll have the leverage to force Liquid to exchange pairs on routes.

That's how it's done in the submarine Fiber world

Liquid Telecom has a cable network across Southern/Eastern Africa from coast to coast covering Tanzania, Congo, Kenya, Zimbabwe and Angola.

East West is done (no issue overbuilding though I question the financial wisdom : see Quintillion and several British altnets)

https://www.liquiddataport.com/terrestrial/

What's really missing is a North South cable and the best option is from Algeria to Niger. Since the distance that's missing from Fibre coverage from Arlit to In Guezzam by road is just short of 250km as seen in this coverage map

https://www.liquiddataport.com/map/

This document is clearer

https://liquid.tech/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/LIT-Fibre-Map-Sept23-Global.pdf

Covered in this article

https://liquid.tech/about-us/news/liquid-dataport-launches-its-shortest-fibre-route/

If you notice, they've done this twice

SpaceX and Musk called on to rescue China's Shenzhou-20 crew

Send Starliner instead

ISPs more likely to throttle netizens who connect through carrier-grade NAT: Cloudflare

Re: IPV6 over my dead salary

This is a troublingly Naïve claim given the number of large networks reliably run without IPv6. Or where the carrier has it available to only certain groups of users.

Re: NAT Advisory Protocol

Most CGNAT have adjacent contiguous port grouping.

Maybe they can disclose that instead

Google says reports of a Gmail breach have been greatly exaggerated

Is this an actual breach or Credential Stuffing ?

NASA panel fears a Starship lunar touchdown is more fantasy than flight plan

Re: Why an elevator?

Because the suits limit manoeuvre

The Money Blue Origin and SpaceX got added together is less than what Dynetics bid.

An overweight lander is a non working lander period.

Starlink outage knocks tens of thousands offline worldwide

Re: possible cause

They are released significantly below the orbit they operate.

Average lifespan is 5.3 years

SpaceX bulks up Starlink Direct to Cell with $17B EchoStar spectrum deal

Too much money for too little spectrum

I think this is a bad deal for SpaceX unless there's a terrestrial lease to other companies or fixed wireless use to go with it.

Maybe Fixed wireless for the areas where they got over $5000 per home for deployment.

SpaceX rocketeers get fresh FAA license for next Starship launch

They can spend as much as they want. They aren't getting more after unless they do a Boeing

WRT SpaceX and space in general CSS is known for not knowing enough about the industry to make informed claims.

The payment's are available online.

You can see the total amount paid on the HLS contract is under 2 billion. i.e it hasn't been used up.

The idea it's just as taxpayer funded as SLS is ridiculous.

SpaceX is building HLS, not Starship for NASA.

It's fixed price, not cost plus. No guarantee of a profit (actually a guaranteed loss both Blue Origin and SpaceX)

The full amount hasn't been paid so there's no way to blow past the budget.

Re: Tiles b gone

Starliner delays are a joke to you?

Euro-cloud Anexia moves 12,000 VMs off VMware to homebrew KVM platform

Fantastic

Eutelsat OneWeb blames 366th day for 48-hour date disaster

I monitored it myself. Cloudflare claims it was 30 hours

An apparent failure to account for 2024 as a leap year resulted in a ~30 hour #Internet outage for customers of LEO satellite provider

@EutelsatGroup

OneWeb. The disruption occurred 31-Dec 00:00 UTC through 01-Jan 06:00 UTC.

FCC boss urges speedy spectrum auction to fund 'Rip'n'Replace' of Chinese kit

Re: Carriers winning

Most of the carriers using Huawei equipment are small ones in rural areas. Huawei offers end to end turnkey solutions.

That means all you have to do is sales marketing finance and legal.

Starlink direct-to-cell is coming to Ukraine

OneNZ is already up. T-Mobile in testing

I think it should be made available today to at least selected users in Ukraine even if it means different phones and/or SIM's and carrying traffic to NZ/USA where providers are already operational

Could give an additional edge on the battlefield. Maybe as big as regular starlink

$100 android phone alternatives to Iridium texting

Will 2025 be the year satellite-to-smartphone services truly take off?

Re: here in Oz

The partner for this cellular service in Oz is Optus.

Vocus is the business Internet partner and upstream.

Telstra is a residential service reseller.

Re: Multiple financial risks.

I'm sure the lovely people at the TLA's have a budget

Re: Multiple financial risks.

Brazil fined starlink and threatened to ban it. At most they froze the bank accounts

No Kessler in VLEO

Re: Battery

There's no implication.

You can tell how much they can transmit given the spectrum allocated.

Re: Battery

It's theoretically 17 down.

In practice it's 10/3 per beam the size of Spain

FCC throws open 6 GHz band to unlicensed low-power gizmos

A better use would have been 5G or FWA.

San Francisco billboards call out tech firms for not paying for open source

Re: Fools

Most of these developers are seniors

Vietnam plans to convert all its networks to IPv6

A lot of the manufacturing is source laundering for the Chinese.

Starlink was offered for free to those hit by Hurricane Helene. It is not entirely free

Re: Misleading article

It's very unlikely Musk was running PayPal when you lost your money

Re: Fair's Fair

The hardware is available in several stores

Re: Clear for you maybe

They are there and did exactly that

I bet nothing else than giving free dishes and service forever to everyone would satisfy them and maybe not even that.

Personally indicating the batteries not included is enough. Free service (dish purchase required) seems to do it.

https://www.cnet.com/home/internet/free-internet-hurricane-helene/ although I don't see how the companies offering https://winknews.com/2024/10/09/att-verizon-wireless-companies-waiving-overage-fees-hurricane-milton/ free mobile service aren't asked why they aren't given free phones to keep things equal

This was an offer originally for people on the ground who bought hardware at retail (as opposed to direct) and had issues activating..

Nothing other than free service was ever hinted at

You'll notice you can only really get a dish available at retail

When you get a new retail dish and turn it on you have an hour of free Internet to sign up an account out of the box. The starlink hurricane offer makes it 30 days..

Starlink's regular 30 day offer is only available direct and is different from the description in the article. It doesn't give you a month free period. It's an offer to refund your dish and service if you don't like it after a month. You always pay for service upfront..

There's also at least 2000 free dishes in the area, at least half of them provided by SpaceX itself. You can get free WiFi there but you have to bring your phone

Re: 'SpaceX isn't just saying now ... you'll need to get a dish'

I saw it on Twitter and it was very clear to me.

There's more than one source of truth..and sometimes they aren't in sync

Re: Free service, but expensive hardware, delivered by van to a disaster zone?

There's people moving them on mules

Re: Headaches

Only people who heard it l filtered through someone else would have thought otherwise. The offer I saw was very clear about service only.

It's like being surprised your free service offer from a mobile provider doesn't come with a free phone

Re: Trials and tribulations

I have a headache from this.

The 30 day offer you're getting here isn't the 30 day offer other people get elsewhere

Re: Misleading article

This was created for people with activation issues.

If you have a dish activation isn't required

Re: Misleading article

I'm sorry but it was there on Twitter and very clear to me from the start because people asked for this because of activation issues.

If you have a dish it will work without activation

Re: "a crafty, bait and switch ... meant to take advantage of people instead of helping them"

Make what clear exactly?

One-year countdown to 'biggest Ctrl-Alt-Delete in history' as Windows 10 approaches end of support

Just move to a rolling Debian Distro

US lawmakers dig into FCC's $900M Starlink snub in wake of Hurricane Helene

Probe is going nowhere fast

SpaceX, Northrop Grumman reportedly working on US spy sat program

Re: GMTI

Airbus and Boeing have military divisions.

They still sell to China