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by rbanffy 480 days ago
So, standards and multiple independent implementations operated by multiple service providers.
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As someone who dabbled as a user of satelite internet before spacex, nobody else can do it. It sucked
SpaceX changed the rules of the game - before SpaceX we all used stationary satellites, needed to point antennas to them, deal with atrocious latencies and low bandwidths.

The enabling technology is constellations in low orbit and SpaceX isn't the only one anymore.