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Egonextoday at 9:54 AM2 repliesview on HN

People think that with better D2D technology, emergency and telemetry messages will still be short and to the point. These messages will not be like streaming videos.

When companies work together on things, like spectrum and constellations and handset deals it changes how people get billed.. It does not change the fact that people want to keep the messages small when millions of devices are using the same channel.

I am curious to see if people will still talk about having satellite access or if they will start talking about paying for what they use once this is up and running. D2D technology is still going to be used for these messages.


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lxgrtoday at 12:32 PM

With small enough spot beams, the difference between a large rural cell and a very narrow direct-to-device spot beam footprint is really not that big anymore. Starlink apparently already offers video calling over direct to cell in the US via T-Mobile!

bobdvbtoday at 10:38 AM

Spectrum contention is going to be insane in D2D.

Starlink already has to constrain the number of broadband accounts per locale to avoid saturation.

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