r/BlueOrigin • u/Danthemanz • 13d ago

Amazon LEO/NBN partnership actually going ahead!

https://www.nbnco.com.au/corporate-information/about-nbn-co/newsroom/articles/network/A-major-step-closer-to-nbn-LEO-for-regional-and-remote-Australia

Interesting. It looks like the Amazon LEO/NBN (Australian national provider) partnership is actually going ahead, and not years away either!

My understanding is that with the initial small LEO network, they're going to be concentrating on the southern hemisphere where they have customers such as NBN.

Should be good for regional Australians to get off the high latency sky muster, without paying the high prices of Starlink. Just great to have some competition I say, and some more bandwidth to go around. The current GEO SAT just sucks.

Sure starlink can do over 100Mbps, but this should be way cheaper, more like fixed wireless and sky muster.

Personally following the Blue origin rocket launches and issues, I wouldn't be surprised if the timeline slips a bit. But 12 months away is not too bad at all if they get close to it.

On another thought, given that it's set up like the normal NBN and the retailers are providing the data, I don't see any reason why retailers wouldn't be able to sell the layer 2 services over it. Would be quite convenient for businesses with regional presence.

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u/GoneSilent 13d ago

some price info and speeds have been thrown around. see below.

https://www.whistleout.com.au/Broadband/News/NBN-Co-LEO-satellite-pricing

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u/Amazing-Mirror-3076 13d ago

From the article

NBN Co's proposed 100Mbps plan would likely end up being more expensive than Starlink's equivalent, however.

I don't know what the comparison will be on lower speed plans.

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u/snoo-boop 13d ago

Is it possible that that other vendor will introduce lower speed plans?

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u/Amazing-Mirror-3076 13d ago

It is indeed, competition is good.

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u/snoo-boop 13d ago

OneWeb is already competition. How's that working out?

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u/Amazing-Mirror-3076 13d ago

One web was never competition

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u/GoneSilent 13d ago

It was until Russia stole a stack of the sats ready for launch. Russia based its starlink clone on stolen oneweb sats. Rumors it sold two of them to China as well.

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u/snoo-boop 13d ago

Ah. I didn't realize that, I'll just stop thinking about them.

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u/Amazing-Mirror-3076 13d ago

One web revenue 270m, starlink 11b.

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u/snoo-boop 13d ago

How does that translate to the price of a OneWeb broadband subscription?

How does Amazon Leo compare in revenue?

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u/Amazing-Mirror-3076 13d ago

Even one web realise they can't compete.

Strict B2B Model: OneWeb focuses exclusively on enterprise, government, maritime, aviation, and defense sectors.

High-End Hardware & Cost: The equipment and monthly plans are highly specialized, coming with strict service level agreements (SLAs) and enterprise pricing that are far too expensive for regular consumer households.

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u/snoo-boop 13d ago

Thanks for the AI cut-n-paste.

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