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by niche 4078 days ago
I webcasted my wedding in Vegas ($100 add on). It was a great hit. With more millennials jumping into the marriage pool, this is a great startup vertical (horizontal?). Just make a pi, put a sim card on it / satellite link/ connect to wifi, and you can invite everyone to your special life event.
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The real problem is spotty internet connections causing the filming of the "big event" to fail. Just has to happen a couple of times before people will be leery of your product (because when it comes to weddings everything has to be "perfect").
Such a livestreamer would have to use data connections with fallbacks from multiple mobile data providers and possible a satellite fallback, and a mobile signal booster to bring inside venues.
Last I checked that was stupid expensive. Here in the Bay Area Caltrain doesn't have wifi (lol?) so I went on a kick of "I'm gonna get THE BEST MOBILE INTERNET AVAILABLE ANYWHERE" to use on the train. I ended up with a simple Verizon jetpack because the satellite internet stuff comes in briefcases, is CRAZY expensive (like thousands of dollars for the equipment and hundreds for the service) and on top of all that it's stupid slow.

$2,239, up to 492Kbps: http://www.groundcontrol.com/BGAN.htm