"That'll be a big step to have like, more than zero in the not-bankrupt category," he said. Previous companies that deployed low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites went bankrupt, a fate SpaceX is trying to avoid, Musk said. We need to make the thing work," he said. SpaceX President and COO Gwynne Shotwell recently said the company is likely to spin out the Starlink broadband business and take it public, and a CNBC report said that could happen sometime "in the next several years."īut when asked about Shotwell's spinoff comment yesterday, Musk said he's not thinking about it yet. "We're thinking about that zero. But we can't do a lot of customers in LA because the bandwidth per cell is simply not high enough." Advertisement "We'll have some small number of customers in LA. it's not good for high-density situations," Musk said. "The challenge for anything that is space-based is that the size of the cell is gigantic. But he cautioned against expecting that everyone in a big city would be able to use Starlink. Musk said there will be plenty of bandwidth in areas with low population densities and that there will be some customers in big cities. So will Starlink be a good option for anyone in the United States? Not necessarily. But let's just say somebody will be able to watch high-def movies, play video games, and do all the things they want to do without noticing speed," he said. The amount of bandwidth available will be enough to support typical Internet usage, at least in rural areas, Musk said. "The bandwidth is a very complex question. But Musk has been predicting sub-20ms latency since at least May 2019, with the potential for sub-10ms latency sometime in the future. When SpaceX first began talking about its satellite plans in late 2016, it said latency would be 25ms to 35ms. Latency of less than 20ms would make Starlink comparable to wired broadband service. "We're targeting latency below 20 milliseconds, so somebody could play a fast-response video game at a competitive level, like that's the threshold for the latency." "It will be a pretty good experience because it'll be very low latency," Musk said in a Q&A session at the Satellite 2020 conference ( see video). Despite that, the SpaceX CEO argued that Starlink won't be a major threat to telcos because the satellite service won't be good enough for high-population areas and will mostly be used by rural customers without access to fast broadband.
SpaceX's Starlink satellite broadband will have latency low enough to support competitive online gaming and will generally be fast enough that customers won't have to think about Internet speed, Elon Musk said at a conference yesterday.
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