did your industry not have access to satellite radio/internet prior to this for some reason? I was working on "cloud connectivity for remote mining sites" at least twelve years ago, and we were late to enter the market.
You would get generic feedback but now we get super high resolution imagery of core samples and live telemetry of drilling status. Based on that we can have teams here review and redo entire drill plans on the fly.
A decade ago, you’d be looking at 2mbps under good conditions, significant outages and reliability issues, and paying $50 to $100 per gigabyte.
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Starlink is the first satellite internet that's actually usable for anything more bandwidth-intensive than email.
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