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SpaceX does not plan to add 'tiered pricing' for Starlink satellite internet service, president says
SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell does not think the company will add "tiered pricing" for its direct-to-consumer Starlink satellite internet service, which is currently offered at $99 a month in limited early access.
"I don't think we're going to do tiered pricing to consumers. We're going to try to keep it as simple as possible and transparent as possible, so right now there are no plans to tier for consumers," Shotwell said, speaking at the Satellite 2021 "LEO Digital Forum" on a virtual panel on Tuesday.
[...] In October, SpaceX began rolling out early Starlink service in a public beta that now extends to customers in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Germany and New Zealand – with service priced at $99 a month in the U.S., in addition to an upfront cost for the equipment needed to connect to the satellites.
[...] Musk's company plans to expand Starlink beyond homes, asking the Federal Communications Commission to widen its connectivity authorization to "moving vehicles," so the service could be used with everything from aircraft to ships to large trucks.
[...] Shotwell said SpaceX has "made great progress on reducing the cost" of the Starlink user terminal, which originally were about $3,000 each. She said the terminals now cost less than $1,500, and SpaceX "just rolled out a new version that saved about $200 off the cost."
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(Score: 4, Informative) by mhajicek on Thursday April 08 2021, @05:12AM (2 children)
I have Hughesnet. It's about comparable to two 56k modems much of the time. Sometimes faster, sometimes nothing. Usually a full second of ping, sometimes two or more.
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
(Score: 2) by mhajicek on Thursday April 08 2021, @05:15AM
I should add, Hughesnet uses a small number of high altitude satellites, they will never approach Starlink speeds.
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
(Score: 4, Informative) by isostatic on Thursday April 08 2021, @08:02AM
Massive experience with GEO - BGans, Tooways, Vipersats etc. Latency in the 600 (dedicated) to 1200 (background) ms range, bandwidth expensive and limited (bgans are in the 1mbit range, vipersats how we use them will give us 3 or 4mbit for the frequency we use)
Limited experience with starlink, latency is in the 50ms range, bandwidth in the tens of megabits in both directions.