[jroesner]

I can imagine there’s a direct connection to Apples announcement on Sep 7th. I don’t recall all the details, but read a report, that Apple bought a partially defunct satellite network, that has only very few, but therefore geostationary satellites which come with bandwidth licenses that exceed Starlink’s by a lot. Might be totally wrong, but did anybody else hear that rumor?

[Kye]

The latency is probably as bad as any other stationary satellite network. Apple might have bought it to ensure connectivity with its interests across the globe, not to productize it.

[BenjiWiebe]

The latency will be bad unless they use faster than light communication.

[Kye]

This is in a context comparing them to satellites that fly low enough to get latencies comparable to terrestrial.