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I thought the move to do midband mobile spectrum with t-mobile and offer line of site coverage across 100% of the country was a pretty big move. Existing phones can be enabled on this spectrum. I also see it being leveraged well for edge services where classical 5g towers are just too damn expensive to pout out that far

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You do realize that in terms of speed it makes 2G look like a dream?

It’s only good for emergencies.

And anyway it was mostly just a publicity stunt, announcing non existing feature (no satellites in orbit are able to do it) to preempt Apple by few days, and them rolling out working product this year.

"The public tends to respond to precedents and superlatives," is one of his main quotes. At some point I think he figured out it doesn't even need to be released first to get the precedent credit.

Or released at all. Elon does a lot of cool stuff but generates even more vaporware.

You do realize how valuable this is right? Spot trackers are much worse and cost much more and offer a fraction of the service.

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