Again, it’s not that google couldn’t pull it off. It’s that they stole technology from a firm that was and is operating quite well. 

Do your own due diligence :) 

The world is a big place. The telcom needs (and other uses of an airborne payload agnostic platform) is immense. 

Opex costs dominate . Our capital stack is …. complex. 


Reachableceo

The point is, if Google could not pull it off, why would the small business have been able to pull it off?

I suppose what I'm really asking is what are the biggest costs? Is it making the balloons? Is it all the telecom equipment? Is it having to replace the balloons frequently? -- I'm not sure what the lifecycle is like.

DeltaClimbs

tech

Starlink - the end of the free internet? Or a new birth?

davidw

Patent trolls? No. Do some research and you can read the court case etc . :) They tried to rip off a small business. Nasty stuff. 

Cost isn’t really an issue for them. They are desperate for any other source of scalable revenue other than the ad business .

As for hurdles and costs etc , right now it’s like any other business. Finding the right talent , partners and vendors . 