As cable TV operators learn to make an impact on their business, sometimes even by launching their own streaming TV services, the next stage of the event suddenly hits the horizon and the round is deadly. It is possible.

SpaceX is set to launch its own high-speed home internet service this year, promising to reduce the cost of legacy ISPs. While Telescope's current options for cable companies and the Internet are not impressive, the new satellite-based broadband system, which is looking to build with an Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN), appears to be offering customers. Finally the best chance to differentiate previous types is to provide them with existing providers.

If consumers hold these low-cost options with both hands - and why they don't, because this is the point of cutting the cord for everyone - it's devastating to the old guard.

Satellite Broadband Launch
Satellite Broadband Launch

Enter the class

SpaceX is expected to be outside the gate. There are now about 175 satellites in orbit, and with a total of 12,000 planned, SpaceX has dominated Amazon, OneWeb and TelSat, which will begin offering broadband from space by December.

Last August, the space shuttle company asked the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to approve the launch of its satellites on three different orbital planes, as it was originally permitted. By doing so, SpaceX said it could rapidly populate the sky with more satellites and "provide coverage for more areas by the end of the storm season." It said the rest of the US could arrive before the start of next season.

The Atlantic Hurricane Season runs from June 1 to November 30; The Pacific season begins in mid-May.

It is not yet known how much SpaceX's Internet service will cost, but Elon Musk says the alternative is to provide broadband connectivity to areas underlined by existing ISPs and reduce costs in more urbanized areas. It all depends on his definition of "low cost".

Astronauts do not need to apply

Similarly, Amazon plans to build more than 3,200 satellites in low Earth orbit to help its project, the Kiper Broadband System, "provide connectivity to untouched and underserved communities worldwide." Is.

While the FCC has yet to approve them, the e-commerce giant has hundreds of job openings for the venture, recently posting positions to several senior hardware, design and electrical engineers, and Amazon suggests it will be on the ground. When it is a node.

Amazon also predicts that most people will want to sign up for the service because Jeff Bezos said the company can only do big things. He told participants at last year's Amazon Global Artificial Intelligence Conference:

So this project is with Kuiper. This is a very good business for Amazon because it is a very high [capital cost] venture. It's a multi-billion-dollar capex ... Amazon is a big company, and all we have to do now, if they work, is actually move the needle.

Providing broadband service around the world certainly moves the needle, especially if it is cheap.

Lost in space

Others have also begun to offer a new Internet service - T-Mobile is launching its LTE-based service, which costs $ 50 per month without a data cap - and satellite broadband services can be very costly. For existing providers.

This has forced the thrill of streaming, such as AT&T and Comcast, to launch their own streaming services, but the next development of cutting the cord is almost here, and they have an effective mindset to cut prices, which eats profitability.

SpaceX is trying to reduce its rocket launch rate so that more satellites can be placed in space and Amazon can accept FCC. Satellite broadband is still a small, niche, space, but 2020 may be the year that the Grip breaks free when cable and telcos have internet access.