To reach the people of the world who have not yet contacted him

Major companies compete to arrange the Internet's journey into space

"SpaceX" plans to provide the Internet on Mars itself.

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Elon Musk, SpaceX, plans to launch its satellite-based internet service (Starlink) and offer it to first experimenters within a few months.

The company recently announced that its plan had attracted the attention of 700,000 Americans, which is why it requested permission from the US Federal Communications Commission to expand its system.

This is the latest example of a giant tech company seeking to expand global Internet connectivity to the world's population who has not yet been connected to the Internet.

Also, (Amazon, Boeing, Facebook, Google, Huawei, Samsung, and possibly Apple) are trying to attract the public to their networks to connect to the Internet via their satellites.

Perhaps all of this does not seem important to you as long as you are already connected to the Internet, especially since in the years it will take for the satellite Internet to develop from the beta version to start receiving customers, the fifth generation networks will have spread and their promises have been fulfilled.

Long trip

Zach Manchester, an assistant professor in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Stanford University, told NBC magazine, “It will take years to launch the entire constellation of satellites into space, because it requires many launches and exorbitant expenses, and if we compare that with the infrastructure of terrestrial cellular towers, we will find that they are needed. To five years or more, until its coverage became good and included most of the people.

But the costs of equipment and satellite launches are decreasing, and the company that gets a large share of the offline world will be able to gain billions of dollars;

Morgan Stanley expects that SpaceX will be able to make 30 to 50 billion dollars annually if it expands global Internet access from 50% to 75%, that is, by adding two billion new users to the Internet.

The fact is that the satellite Internet bridges the communication gap by providing fast and reliable service to the residents of rural and remote areas. As for the fourth generation and fifth generation services, although they appear to be wireless, they are in fact based on a wired internet service provider that allows connection to the Internet via optical fiber cables connected to the towers. Cellular services, and in order to expand these services, kilometers of cables must be laid and new cell towers built, which is slow and costly;

This is the digital divide, and this is where the satellite internet comes in.

Instead, satellite networks and 5G networks may be integrated and compatible;

The latter will often have a long-term advantage in terms of delay (how quickly the network responds to commands), but achieving this requires the establishment of converged cellular stations at high densities.

Little cost

And the development that satellites enable if it can reduce the cost of use in developing countries and expand networks, it will attract many users to entertainment, health and financial technology applications, especially those who prevent them from benefiting from this just the cost of connecting to the Internet, a barrier that was present in developed countries recently, and is still It exists in many developing countries.

Moreover, small internet satellites have a profound impact on the Internet of commercial and industrial things (which are autonomous and semi-autonomous devices connected to the Internet, from small sensors to large machines).

Even by providing speeds less than the speeds of the fifth generation, satellites can provide "streams" of data to the "remote Internet of things", reaching sectors that make them geographically distant from technical infrastructure, such as agriculture, mining, and transport by ships and trucks.

The Internet of things

A report issued by the London School of Economics cites a satellite Internet visualization capable of tracking the location and performance of a wide range of things in their path, such as inventory of trucks and cargo boats, remote measurement and inspection of aircraft engines, fuel management, livestock tracking, freight management, and line monitoring. Remote oil and gas pipelines.

Even if the satellite internet market turns out to be smaller than expected, which is what Luke Palerm Sera, an analyst at the Northern Sky Research Center, points out to Wired, "two-thirds of the people who are not connected to the Internet globally do not connect to it intentionally," then IoT applications may They constitute a huge market.

Legal regulation

It is noted that the technical obstacles to the launch of the operation of satellite Internet networks are decreasing, but their legal regulation is still vague.

Robert Roche, a satellite communications analyst for Wired, said that international law "prohibits providing service in a specific area except with the permission of the state ruling the region." It is true that the satellite Internet can reach anywhere, but it must first pass through law stations and lobbyists.

"SpaceX" could make $ 50 billion annually, and "Amazon" is proud to attract four billion potential customers.

"Facebook", "Google" and "Huawei" are planning to launch satellites to expand the use of the Internet.

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