Forgot bandwidth. Starlink is unlikely to scale upwards in terms of bandwidth.
Fiber will always kill Starlink on latency. Even if they get the v2 to use direct laser comms between satellites, this will only benefit longhaul latencies and 90+% of all consumer Internet traffic is sourced locally. Jared > Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2020 > From: [email protected] > To: "AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Starlink $99/month > > Have to keep telling myself why people will prefer fiber over Starlink: > Trees > Snow > Visual antenna blight (but that will not work for Wisps) > Possibly worse latency (I hope). > Weather? (will Storms knock it out) > > I am actually excited for the tribal areas in Utah that have school kids > without internet. Not like we did not try to serve them. But tribes are > problematic to work with. Some tribal areas still don't have electricity. > Not like there is not lots of programs to pay for this stuff. > > But tribes ... are ... problematic ... > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2020 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Starlink $99/month > > I don't think Starlink will go in for predatory pricing. They have more > customers than they can handle and I'd say they have a strong upward pricing > pressure rather than the opposite. > > However, things could get interesting if they manage to get their hands on > large amounts of government subsidies. > > > Jared > > > Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2020 > > From: [email protected] > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Starlink $99/month > > > > Damn, that is close to what I charge. I give 500 Mbps for that price but > > I > > hope they don't start predatory pricing. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [email protected] > > Sent: Tuesday, October 27 > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: [AFMUG] Starlink $99/month > > > > SpaceX Starlink public beta begins: It’s $99 a month plus $500 up front > > https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/10/spacex-starlink-public-beta-begins-its-99-a-month-plus-500-up-front/ > > > > -- > > AF mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > > > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > > > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > -- AF mailing list [email protected] http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
