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by marksc 3293 days ago
> They're expensive (beyond a little bit of included data usage) and high-latency. How's SpaceX going to change that?

Very many lower cost lower orbit satellites.

The plan is to double the amount of active satellites in orbit (4425 new satellites) in the next few years, resulting in half of all satellites being SpaceX internet satellites that cost an order of magnitude less than current satellites.