Elon Musk reacted to a post highlighting that Starlink V3 boasts a bandwidth of 1024 Gbps per satellite, which is 10.7 times greater than V2’s 96 Gbps.
The billionaire announced plans to deploy over 100,000 satellites across V3, V4, and V5 iterations in the future. This constellation will support both conventional broadband internet and direct communication with smartphones (Direct-to-Cell).
Musk’s projection is that Starlink, if current growth trajectories persist, could evolve into the primary backbone for global internet traffic.
“Starlink will eventually carry the majority of internet traffic. At that point, it will be the internet, and everything else will connect to Starlink,” he stated.
Currently, Starlink serves over 10 million subscribers and has surpassed 10,000 satellites in orbit.
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