TriX wrote:
Nope, you connect directly to the satellites and they relay data from satellite to satellite. When I checked, the price of the “ground station” was a one time $499 and the service was typically about $99/month.
Thanks for the info. That 's kinda interesting. Elon Musk defended filling up the sky with all these satellites because he said it would make the Internet available to people in remote areas of the world who don't have any access. I wonder how many poor people in remote areas of third world countries can afford their own $499 ground station, a $99 monthly charge and oh yeah, several hundred dollar's for a PC. Overall I agree it's going to help a lot of people like you but I doubt it's going to bring the internet to a poor, remote village in southern Africa or India.