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by ncmncm
1421 days ago
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The real big-ticket customers will be hedge funds getting trans- and intercontinental financial data a few ms ahead of competitors. It would not be surprising if Starlink charged them 100x as much for each ms of latency boost. They would be paying not so much for the ms ahead of fiber as for their lower-paying competitors to get less ahead of fiber. In fintech, they say "a microsecond is an aeon, a millisecond an eternity". You can do millions of computations in a ms. |
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