{"id":90534,"date":"2019-05-09T17:02:46","date_gmt":"2019-05-10T00:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/elon-musk-jeff-bezos-can-save-american-households-30-billion-with-leo-satellites"},"modified":"2019-05-09T17:02:46","modified_gmt":"2019-05-10T00:02:46","slug":"elon-musk-jeff-bezos-can-save-american-households-30-billion-with-leo-satellites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/elon-musk-jeff-bezos-can-save-american-households-30-billion-with-leo-satellites","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk &amp; Jeff Bezos Can Save American Households $30+ Billion with LEO Satellites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/elon-musk-jeff-bezos-can-save-american-households-30-billion-with-leo-satellites2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites are still in their nascency, but analysis of BroadbandNow US market pricing data suggests that the technology could save American households more than $30 billion per year by intensifying broadband competition.<\/p>\n<p>LEO satellites, such as the constellations planned by Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg24032033-300-the-first-detailed-look-at-how-elon-musks-space-internet-could-work\/\">Starlink<\/a> project and Jeff Bezos\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2019\/04\/05\/jeff-bezos-amazon-internet-satellites-4-billion-new-customers.html\">Project Kuiper<\/a>, promise to bring low-latency broadband internet to millions of Americans. LEO satellite orbit extremely close to earth, between <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iridium.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/11\/satellites-101-leo-vs-geo\/\">99 to 1200 miles versus 22,000 miles<\/a> of traditional GEO satellites, which means less time to transfer information (lower latency) and a quality of service comparable to wired broadband cable and fiber providers. The arrays will be precisely mapped into massive constellations to maximize coverage.<\/p>\n<p>LEO technology will offer robust internet access to underserved and rural communities lacking wired, low-latency broadband options. The arrival of this emergent technology is likely to drive down monthly internet prices for hundreds of millions of Americans.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/broadbandnow.com\/research\/leo-satellite-internet-consumer-savings-study\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites are still in their nascency, but analysis of BroadbandNow US market pricing data suggests that the technology could save American households more than $30 billion per year by intensifying broadband competition. LEO satellites, such as the constellations planned by Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX Starlink project and Jeff Bezos\u2019 Project Kuiper, promise [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":518,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,418,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-internet","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90534","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\/518"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}