On 6/16/23 1:36 PM, Josh Luthman wrote:
Not everyone can afford $1000 to start up Starlink and then pay $130+ per month. That may be an option for some, but certainly not the majority.
If 100% of a town was covered by a single company with data caps, those that are crying from hitting 1.2 TB/month will not be enough for a competitor to come in and build on top. A TB/mo now is extremely high - In May 2023 we had 4 customers that exceeded that (all 4 of these customers mentioned are subscribed to <25 mbps plans; we offer gig ftth).
I get the impression that they are still in a beta/early adopter situation so unaffordability might be feature not a bug to them to keep the system from a success disaster. At least for now. I get the impression that some/a lot of this is to bring the internet to the rest of the world as one of their goals. I do wonder how they are numbering them though. Are the they using the same scheme that the mobile providers are using with ipv6? hmm. Mike
On Fri, Jun 16, 2023 at 4:22 PM Mark Tinka <mark@tinka.africa> wrote:
On 6/16/23 22:16, Michael Thomas wrote:
> Won't Starlink and other LEO configurations be that backstop sooner > rather than later? I don't know if they have caps as well, but even if > they do they could compete with their caps.
Maybe. I really haven't paid any attention to Starlink, although there are credible reports of folk testing it here in South Africa's urban centres.
I have not heard of any mention of Starlink having caps as part of their service. Having said that, for services like this, things change as the number of customers using them rises.
Mark.