{"id":70930,"date":"2017-07-16T12:02:25","date_gmt":"2017-07-16T19:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/will-spacex-become-the-worlds-biggest-telecoms-provider-probably"},"modified":"2017-07-16T12:02:25","modified_gmt":"2017-07-16T19:02:25","slug":"will-spacex-become-the-worlds-biggest-telecoms-provider-probably","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/will-spacex-become-the-worlds-biggest-telecoms-provider-probably","title":{"rendered":"Will SpaceX become the world\u2019s biggest telecoms provider? Probably"},"content":{"rendered":"

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(This is a followup post to three earlier posts on forecasting. The first<\/a> in May 2015 forecast both blimp-based and dedicated building-based drone deployments (later patented by Amazon); The second<\/a> in October 2015 largely predicted Elon Musk\u2019s Tesla Masterplan Part Deux<\/a> by 9 months, the third<\/a> in July 2016 among other things correctly hypothesised the use of Model X falcon wings for future possible Tesla bus designs. I try to get it right but I mainly enjoy the idle speculation).<\/p>\n

I was recently in San Francisco and had a very random number of drinks with two very friendly employees of US telco AT&T. As is often the case I turned the conversation towards autonomous vehicles, and more specifically two of Elon Musk\u2019s companies, Tesla and SpaceX.<\/p>\n

I was curious about how cars, such as a Model S, have much greater data connectivity needs than ever before. Right now, Teslas connect<\/a> to AT&T\u2019s network and it seems clear that data needs will only increase for data hungry vehicles that drive themselves. Already Tesla cars consume quite a few gigabytes of data per month.<\/p>\n

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(This is a followup post to three earlier posts on forecasting. The first in May 2015 forecast both blimp-based and dedicated building-based drone deployments (later patented by Amazon); The second in October 2015 largely predicted Elon Musk\u2019s Tesla Masterplan Part Deux by 9 months, the third in July 2016 among other things correctly hypothesised the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,2019,6,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-elon-musk","category-robotics-ai","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}