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They haven’t done a great job of marketing it. $100-120 a month isn’t bad and it beats the pants off of all the other satellite internet services.
It's especially more cost effective than rural wireless ISPs. Those places are straight crooks.
As opposed to Elon? 😅
Yeah the alternative is $200 a month for 2mbps with a 20GB data cap. You can't even stream video with this service.
Yeah my parents had dish or wisp before. I'm thankful for "skynet" as my dad calls it, so much faster for less money
Have they needed to? My mom has no high speed internet to her house. She signed up for Starlink like 2 years ago. Still on the waitlist.
My coworkers mom signed up for it about 1.5 years ago and got connected about a year ago in rural WA. Are you sure you're still on the list?
They dosh them out to more profitable areas first, or areas with more open slots.
Yeah, they were notified they'll have the chance soon. I think it depends on your area. As I understand it, they were being very limited with accepting users as they continue to expand capacity.
Maybe that's normal in US but it's way overpriced in UK. They want £75/mo and I'm paying £35 for 500Mb in a rural area and there's several different providers to choose from. My sister is even more remote than me and they're getting fibre this week.
I could also get unlimited 4G for about £20.
I don't know anyone who is using starlink
Its priced at people who wouldn't get anything more than a few mb in remote areas who have no other choice, rather than a direct competitor against high speed fiber or someone lucky enough to live line of sight to a 5G mast.
I have fiber at home and starlink for my RV, for travel starlink works perfectly. I have a proper 4g router and external aerial for my van and it never comes close to the speed I get from starlink. I know people who cruise on boats and it works perfectly for them as well (as long as its kept dry).
Mobile high speed internet where you struggle to get even enough mobile phone signal to make a phone call it has no real competitor at that price point. Boats in particular its transformed the market, it used to be thousands per month for high speed internet at sea with any sort of decent data allowance.
I wish the USA had the options you just posted in rural areas. We pay for broadband expansion out of our taxes and they still won’t expand. It’s sad.