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HacheNoire:
Every complexity rides with broadband and not satellite.

Don’t you know how many satellites you will put in space to compete with MTN if Starkink has same users as MTN?

Junks will be falling from space on weekly basis. Don’t even let us go to other technical constrain.

not everyOne is technical enough Sir. Me nowAdays dey read and pass in ghost mode except I feel like spewing ma own trash to further fill Seun's hardDrives like I'm currently doing

HacheNoire:
How many will be launched, and when V4 comes, how many will be launched too. How will it make up for latency and interference?

It already has 11,000 satellites in space serving just 3 million users across the world. How many junks will it lit in space to compete with broadband.

Satellite communication can not compete with broadband.

If they're really throwing junks into space why exactly is SpaceX shares rising??

Fiyin007:
If they're really throwing junks into space why exactly is SpaceX shares rising??

Is spacex only into communication?

HacheNoire:
Yes!

Research about it! Not here to go into technical details.

No way satellite communication can deliver speed or outshine broadband. No possible way!

I think you are wrong here, this is a different kind of satellite, not the conventional one and this is done by them only at the moment. These are multiple satalite not a fixed satalite, this is where you got it wrong.

HacheNoire:
Is spacex only into communication?

That's their core business. Launching low cost satellite communication for other enterprises and starlink launch

erico2k2:
I think you are wrong here, this is a different kind of satellite, not the conventional one and this is done by them only at the moment. These are multiple satalite not a fixed satalite, this is where you got it wrong.

Read my subsequent comment! I never said one satellite.

Fiyin007:
That's their core business

Who told you that?

HacheNoire:
Who told you that?

Who told you otherwise?

HacheNoire:
Read my subsequent comment! I never said one satellite.

Well true you never did, but I think with this argument in all if you was stating FIbre yeh I will agree with you but with wired internet as we have at the moment in Nigeria, I think I will give it to star link until Nigeria upgrade to fibre optic broadband. Starlink with its LEO satellites wont stand a chance with proper fibre.

TheStoriesOfMan:
What? You said Starlink will fold if MTN put in the work for broadband?

Hehehehehehehehehehehe.

What do you think powers high-security AI data centers in Hong Kong?

What powers quantum computing? You want to use broadband for quantum computing? You want to use a drop of water and a paper napkin to clean 100 glass windows?

Guy you are very funny.

Bro I think you went too far o n this one,Japan is Fibre,Nigeria is still geting introduced to copper wired broad band which is very slow.

erico2k2:
Well true you never did, but I think with this argument in all if you was stating FIbre yeh I will agree with you but with wired internet as we have at the moment in Nigeria, I think I will give it to star link until Nigeria upgrade to fibre optic broadband. Starlink with its LEO satellites wont stand a chance with proper fibre.

Why I said of the operators step up their game!

You also have to consider users and impact on bandwidth.

Starlink just has less than 10,000 users in Nigeria and why you still appreciate it.

If half of MTN subscribers are forced to use it, you won’t get 20mbps.

Starlink has 98,642 active subscribers in Nigeria as of H2 2026, making it the 2nd largest ISP in Nigeria after spectranet. What a rapid growth within a short period this excludes mobile networks FYI.

HacheNoire:
Why I said of the operators step up their game!

You also have to consider users and impact on bandwidth.

Starlink just has less than 10,000 users in Nigeria and why you still appreciate it.

If half of MTN subscribers are forced to use it, you won’t get 20mbps.

This is still open for debate, Im sure someone will come with a data contianing active users in Nigeria in a bit, I live in the UK more than in Nigeria so I am not in the now of the active subscribers

erico2k2:
Bro I think you went too far o n this one,Japan is Fibre,Nigeria is still geting introduced to copper wired broad band which is very slow.

Bro, I didn't go far ooo, I'm just being factual here.

Japan uses fibre, true but you need to add existing infrastructures so as to increase the speed. That's one drawback of broadband. For instance, upgrading from 4G to 5G is very expensive.

Even the copper based broadband is the cheapest but has high heat dissipation rate and also prone to cuts.

TheStoriesOfMan:
Bro, I didn't go far ooo, I'm just being factual here.

Japan uses fibre, true but you need to add existing infrastructures so as to increase the speed. That's one drawback of broadband. For instance, upgrading from 4G to 5G is very expensive.

Even the copper based broadband is the cheapest but has high heat dissipation rate and also prone to cuts.

You have not addressed the Issue ,there is a big difference btw Fibre and coper, one uses light the other uses cable,SO you need to specify the one you are on about, waht we call fibre optic broadband is nowhere near fibre optic broadband. Now Japan you mentioned are pioneers in fibre optic broadband, so its infrastructure is not built anywhere near Star link which by the way is child's play when it comes to Fibre optic broadband.

erico2k2:
You have not addressed the Issue ,there is a big difference btw Fibre and coper, one uses light the other uses cable,SO you need to specify the one you are on about, waht we call fibre optic broadband is nowhere near fibre optic broadband. Now Japan you mentioned are pioneers in fibre optic broadband, so its infrastructure is not built anywhere near Star link which by the way is child's play when it comes to Fibre optic broadband.

Yes I know the difference between fibre and cable. Both are wired communications. The transmission mode is the same, isn't?

There is a huge difference between satellite and fibre transmission. I was trying to let the guy know that satellite connection is more reliable then fibre, giving reasons why. Infact, I was even defending satellite communication.

This was my comment: Japan uses fibre, true but you need to add existing infrastructures so as to increase the speed. That's one drawback of broadband. For instance, upgrading from 4G to 5G is very expensive.

Even the copper based broadband is the cheapest but has high heat dissipation rate and also prone to cuts.

I never mentioned Starlink here. This was purely a broadband comment and I slightly diffrenciated both. We are both on the same ship.

TheStoriesOfMan:
Yes I know the difference between fibre and cable. Both are wired communications. The transmission mode is the same, isn't?

There is a huge difference between satellite and fibre transmission. I was trying to let the guy know that satellite connection is more reliable then fibre, giving reasons why. Infact, I was even defending satellite communication.

This was my comment: Japan uses fibre, true but you need to add existing infrastructures so as to increase the speed. That's one drawback of broadband. For instance, upgrading from 4G to 5G is very expensive.

Even the copper based broadband is the cheapest but has high heat dissipation rate and also prone to cuts.

I never mentioned Starlink here. This was purely a broadband comment and I slightly diffrenciated both. We are both on the same ship.

Bro I think you need to calm down and listen to those in this filed, you don't seem to understand it, no disrespect, Fibre optics and wires are way different, as a matter of fact its like saying water and stone are same.I know you have not seen where its being done but I have, I work in that industry. One is coper wire the other is not a wire its just Light guided by a narrow tube hence the name Optics. We do not have that Tech yet in Nigeria as its cutting edge in comunication.

erico2k2:
Bro I think you need to calm down and listen to those in this filed, you don't seem to understand it, no disrespect, Fibre optics and wires are way different, as a matter of fact its like saying water and stone are same.I know you have not seen where its being done but I have, I work in that industry. One is coper wire the other is not a wire its just Light guided by a narrow tube hence the name Optics. We do not have that Tech yet in Nigeria as its cutting edge in comunication.

You didn't read my comments carefully. My explanation was as clear as day.

You are still twisting what I said.

Where did I say fibre optics is a wire? Please point that out for me.

I said fibre optics is a wired network!

Jesus!

TheStoriesOfMan:
You didn't read my comments carefully. My explanation was as clear as day.

You are still twisting what I said.

Where did I say fibre optics is a wire? Please point that out for me.

I said fibre optics is a wired network!

Jesus!

lol Guy you are funny, I don't know what you are trying to prove here, you said Fibre optics is a wired network and I am telling you its not a wired network. There is no single wire inside a fibre optic cable. Its a simple plastic pipe with a tiny hole that light passes through. Will you call your plastic plumbing pipe wired pipe?.I think you actually need to see one to understand it.Some DvDs and PlayStation have a Fibre optic port which emits red light. SOme High End cars like teh range rover have fibre optic cables inside them.Most robotic hand I have worked on all have fibreoptic cables

HacheNoire:
Starlink can never out pace broadband and the current lead they have is all because the telcos are not ready to out it in the work.

No way now or in the future will satellite communication outshine broadband.

Starlink is considered broadband. So you shouldn't be comparing Starlink and broadband.
Unfortunately many people don't understand what broadband means.

erico2k2:
Bro I think you went too far o n this one,Japan is Fibre,Nigeria is still geting introduced to copper wired broad band which is very slow.

That's not correct. I don't know of companies offering copper cable connections but about 20 years ago I had a fiber connection in Nigeria. It's not common but what's available is fiber and wireless Internet services.

erico2k2:
lol Guy you are funny, I don't know what you are trying to prove here, you said Fibre optics is a wired network and I am telling you its not a wired network. There is no single wire inside a fibre optic cable. Its a simple plastic pipe with a tiny hole that light passes through. Will you call your plastic plumbing pipe wired pipe?.I think you actually need to see one to understand it.Some DvDs and PlayStation have a Fibre optic port which emits red light. SOme High End cars like teh range rover have fibre optic cables inside them.Most robotic hand I have worked on all have fibreoptic cables

That means Google is telling me lies right?

TheStoriesOfMan:
That means Google is telling me lies right?

because it was written by people like you who don't have a clear understanding of wha t they are talking about, google just gives you answer of what others write on the NET,I gave you a foto of what a basic fibre optic cable look like the word wired is used for a lot of stuff, If I say I am hot wired, it does not mean I have wires inside of me.

studyless123:
That's not correct. I don't know of companies offering copper cable connections but about 20 years ago I had a fiber connection in Nigeria. It's not common but what's available is fiber and wireless Internet services.

HAHAH you are one of those in Nigeria who think and say they have a LAND LINE when infact the have a mobile phone on a desktop device or lower tarrif.As we speak, the whole of the UK is not fibre optic yet ,they are still installing it across the UK.

erico2k2:
HAHAH you are one of those in Nigeria who think and say they have a LAND LINE when infact the have a mobile phone on a desktop device or lower tarrif.As we speak, the whole of the UK is not fibre optic yet ,they are still installing it across the UK.

Exactly. You're very smart. I don't have any need for landline. I know most UK homes are on fiber and others on copper. You're right, the goal is to have FTTH for all homes.