Ericinmich
Active Member
- Dec 12, 2021
- 213
- Boat Info
- 48 Sundancer, 2007... formally PapaG's
- Engines
- Cummins
But here is the quandry on marine use - the satellites travel across the sky in a matrix. They have to move to prevent gravity from bringing them down; they travel a bit more than 17,000 MPH. As a result (when fully deployed) all of the oceans will have coverage no different than the land. The difference is the location and connectivity to the ground based stations. Regardless, I really see no difference between off shore mobile and RV mobile. Any customer is a good customer; so, I don't understand the rate jump for marine mobility other than the big commercial applications.
I'm not 100% clear on how the SL data gets passed up and down and around but I could see where the costs could always be higher for use away from land. Over land the data can go from user to sat to SL base to get to the internet, where on the ocean it would likely have to pass to a few sats before it gets over a land based SL base to get to the internet.
But if the user data always gets passed be to a few sat's before getting to land links then sure, it shouldn't cost more.