[FreedomPoster]

A couple of related X posts. Worth checking out.

https://x.com/aakashgupta/status/2108464230278299930?s=20

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2108309429128974617?s=20

[Red Badger]

“Here’s why it matters so much. Starlink’s satellite signal at 2 GHz can reach your phone outdoors, but it dies at the first wall. 800 MHz penetrates buildings. Most phones already have the band built in. So satellites handle the open sky, this low-band layer handles indoors, and suddenly Starlink Mobile covers everywhere a normal carrier does without the tower network.”

This is the clincher.

I already knew this because that’s my area of work............

[GOPJ]

The walkie-talkie spectrum from 2004 ended up being the piece that lets satellites replace cell towers. Nobody who touched it for twenty years saw that coming.

I still don't understand... but I guess over the next year or two we'll all start to 'get it'.

[1FreeAmerican]

Thanks for the Gupta link. Explains a lot.

That Sprint push-to-talk was the coolest thing at the time. My buddy was talking to his friends in Argentina from Maui all the time. I got one and and besides the fact that you could throw the phone across a parking lot and nothing would happen to it it was basically a freebe way to communicate with others that had that service.

Musk is a genius.