[cyberax]

> Depending on how you look at it, Starlink can be incredibly cheap compared to Iridium.

They don't have sat-to-sat communications deployed yet, so they can work only near the ground stations.

[dotnet00]

Hmm? Starlink has had sat-to-sat active for a while now. They've been making a killing selling services to ships and planes lately.

[matrix2003]

The laser interlinks have been turned on.

[nirav72]

They have sat-to-sat now. I was on a cruise ship this past summer that used starlink. I was able to get a consistent 3-5 mbps up/down in the middle of the ocean with nearest land at least several hundred miles away.