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SpaceX projected 20 million Starlink users by 2022—it ended up with 1 million (arstechnica.com)
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SpaceX projected 20 million Starlink users by 2022—it ended up with 1 million::Starlink has a fraction of the projected $12B revenue and 20M users, WSJ says.

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[–] exohuman@programming.dev 17 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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.

[–] netburnr@lemmy.world 22 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's especially more cost effective than rural wireless ISPs. Those places are straight crooks.

[–] breakingcups@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

As opposed to Elon? 😅

[–] CmdrShepard@lemmy.one 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah the alternative is $200 a month for 2mbps with a 20GB data cap. You can't even stream video with this service.

[–] netburnr@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Yeah my parents had dish or wisp before. I'm thankful for "skynet" as my dad calls it, so much faster for less money

[–] SpliceVW@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] CmdrShepard@lemmy.one 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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?

[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

They dosh them out to more profitable areas first, or areas with more open slots.

[–] SpliceVW@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] Buckshot@programming.dev 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

[–] exohuman@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

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.