To: TobagoJack who wrote (191674 ) 9/12/2022 1:41:09 AM From: Maurice Winn 3 RecommendationsRecommended By
Respond to Such vast blundering by Globalstar for quarter of a century. A dozen years ago there should have been millions of devices connected, with thousands of satellites being launched to low altitudes, under 1000km, and 10,000 km altitude over the equator for oceanic coverage, and then some polar orbits for everywhere else. Unfortunately, they were clueless on marketing, so did bankruptcy instead and are still babbling about arpu [average revenue per user] instead of number of devices that connect per month and number of gigabytes used. Customers don't buy arpu, they buy data transmission. Arpu is the most stupid measurement. I'd rather have 10 million customers spending $1 per month and getting gigabytes, than 1000 customers paying $1000 per month for a few kilobytes. An almost unused constellation is ridiculous. Fill 'em up! Fast!!According to Universe Today, the satellite provider for Apple is Globalstar. It wasn’t specifically mentioned during the presentation, though. But Globalstar confirmed that it would allocate 85 percent of its current and future network capacity to support the Services.
