#Internet by #Satellite Is a Space Race With No Winners | WIRED
▻https://www.wired.com/2015/06/elon-musk-space-x-satellite-internet
“These large constellations are very inefficient,” says Roger Rusch, a satellite communications industry analyst. He acknowledges that the small satellites SpaceX and OneWeb hope to use are less expensive today than they were in the 1990s, but says they’re still too costly. “They’re cheaper, but you need 4,000 of them, so they need to be 1,000 times cheaper,” he says.
#Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg mentioned the possibility of providing satellite internet service via the Internet.org initiative—a non-profit he co-founded to expand internet access throughout the world — is a blog post last year. But he’s already shelved the idea due to its cost, according to The Information.