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Starlink Alternatives:

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AT & T Satellite Internet - https://www.att.com/internet/fixed-wireless/

Earthlink Satellite Internet - https://www.earthlink.net/

European Union... - https://www.irishtimes.com/business/technology/eu-takes-on-s...

Geespace (Chinese) http://global.geely.com/media-center/news/geespace-successfu...

Hughesnet - https://www.hughesnet.com/get-started

Oneweb - https://oneweb.net/

Project Kuiper - https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/tag/project-kuiper

Telesat - https://www.telesat.com/canada/

Viasat Satellite Internet - https://www.viasat.com/satellite-internet/

So why is none of that used? Perhaps, it's not nearly as good, or can't be used at all for the purposes?

Ukrainians are streaming live full HD drone camera footage to mission command via Google Meet. Show me how to do that with a geospatial link with 3 Mb/s uplink bandwidth and 1000ms latency.

The other LEO ones don't exist at all AFAIK. Projects on paper don't count. Only working networks do.

The post shows possible current or future alternatives. Does not imply they are better.

These are not alternatives if it can't do anything they're doing now.

Ad future - the question wrt. these particular projects is much more "if ever" not "when", and definitely not anytime soon.

They will not stream drones real-time video, but will be able to send 10Kb encrypted data of Russian positions to troops on the field in real-time. Plenty of lives saved.

Cool indeed, but not an alternative. I'd be surprised if they're not doing that already. The actual battlefield transformation came from being able to stream video. You're saying "back to the old times" and calling it an alternative.

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