Rather expensive. Probably fine for country dwellers who have no other high speed options.
No way. Hughsnet costs 7 to 8 grand for their dish, and then again their monthly rate. This is dirt cheap.
>>Probably fine for country dwellers who have no other high speed options.<<
Ships and oil derricks and the like, maybe?
Rural geosat internet is anywhere from $130 to $300 a month for 25mbs to 150mbs and data caps at 500GB or under. Starlink just snowballed every one of the Geosat internet ops times vsat dishes are $1000 or MORE in equipment usually financed over the minimum 2 years of contract. Many rural people have been waiting for starlink. I’m buying ten acres as soon as it’s out of beta and moving far away from Dallas I can do operations geology from anywhere I have at least 10 mbs or faster.
I have to use Verizon Wireless as my internet provider. I got a pretty good plan. I have a Home Phone Connect setup which is essentially a receiver, wifi router and home phone unit. Under their plan I have the Home Phone Connect and 6 smart phones on it. It is unlimited, but I get 22G on each line before they throttle back the speeds. We don’t do Netflix or Hulu on the plan because they would rip into the 22G quickly. I pay $110 a month currently for this plan. Verizon doesn’t offer it anymore and several Verizon representatives have told me do not let anyone talk you into changing your plan.
If this new service eventually cuts its start up costs and doesn’t throttle the user speeds it could become viable to us country folks.
It sure is... they just lost me and I am a country dweller. It will never happen at that price no matter how fast it is. I was afraid they were going to over price it and they did.