Elon Musk SpaceX Starlink announcement

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    Starlink is coming at you with a plan to deliver high-speed internet directly from the satellite to your phone, and Elon Musk is confirming there won't be any middlemen involved in the process.

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    It will allow SpaceX to deliver high bandwidth connectivity directly from the satellites to the phones. But there are hardware changes that need to happen in the phone. Since these frequencies are not supported in current phones, the chipset has to be modified to add these frequencies. And that probably is a two-year time frame. So the phones that are able to use the spectrum that was acquired probably start shipping in around two years. And then we also need to pull the satellites that are going to communicate on those frequencies. So in parallel, we're building the satellites and working with the handset makers to add these frequencies to the phones. And then the satellites and the phones will then handshake very well to achieve high bandwidth connectivity. But the net effect is that you should be able to watch videos anywhere on your phone. Wow. And it's going to be crazy. Do these frequencies would they work indoors inside buildings like your phone currently does Yes And so will you be able to have basically like if you in a building with a with a like a thick metal roof then no but the same types of of normal homes Yes Yes. Elon is your vision for this that instead of, you know, having an AT&T account or, and then roaming when you're in the UK or you're in India, it's just, we could have one direct deal with Starlink. It works all over the world eventually, not today, but at some point, Is that the end goal? That basically we don't need a regional carrier. We have a global carrier, and that would be you. That would be one of the options. To be clear, we're not going to put the other carriers out of business. They're still going to be around because they own a lot of spectrum. But yes, you should be able to have a Starlink, like you have an AT&T or P-Mobile or Verizon or whatever. you could have an account with Starlink that works with your Starlink antenna at home, with Wi-Fi as well as on your phone. And yeah, it would be a comprehensive solution for high bandwidth at home and for high bandwidth direct to cell. Could you buy some carriers to have more spectrum? Maybe you could buy them?