Ok-Significance2027 t1_iybbwk4 wrote
Price points? Affordability? Funding and sustainability?
I have an inkling this will be short-lived due to problems similar to those faced by OLPC.
toodroot t1_iybejp3 wrote
Have you noticed that some Starlink use in Ukraine is to plonk it down in the middle of a village or urban area and let 100 people connect to it with individual phones? Way cheaper than a mobile phone tower. Albeit annoying that you have to stay within wifi range to use it.
Ok-Significance2027 t1_iybijjt wrote
If you wanted to expand the range to the equivalent of what a mobile phone tower would cover, how many satellite receivers would be necessary? Would the price point be more, less, or comparable to a mobile phone tower with that number of receivers?
toodroot t1_iybjshx wrote
Perhaps you'd use a mobile phone tower plus a Starlink ground station -- satellite back-haul is already a thing in the mobile phone industry.
jivatman t1_iybi3l4 wrote
I'd presume most of most of these would be paid for with some of the aid money that goes to Haiti,they get $2.5B per year. Internet is pretty important.
Ok-Significance2027 t1_iybinvw wrote
But would that be the best way to use that money and would that funding be consistently reliable?
jivatman t1_iyblblt wrote
I think it avoids one of the main problems with Haiti aid in being more difficult for this to be misappropriated for corruption, due to the Dishes being GPS-tracked. Easy to tell if it's not where it should be serving a rural school.
And yes, I do think providing rural schools with internet really is one of the absolute best uses of monetary aid to Haiti.
Whether funding would be reliable, well that's a more complex geopolitical, private donation, question I don't really have an answer for.
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