I Was Wrong! SpaceX Starlink Price Increase
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- SpaceX Starlink price hike hit home in rural America! Today we delve into the reasons behind the price increase, the potential impacts on Starlink consumers, and the broader ramifications for the satellite broadband industry, as a whole.
Will your SpaceX Starlink internet month subscription fee go up?
Will your SpaceX Starlink internet month subscription fee go down?
Is this good or bad for SpaceX Starlink and its customers?
Final question!
Should US Customers pay more than European customers?
All this and a lot more on today's VLOG.
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SpaceX Starlink price hike hit home in rural America! Today we delve into the reasons behind the price increase, the potential impacts on Starlink consumers, and the broader ramifications for the satellite broadband industry, as a whole.
Will your SpaceX Starlink internet month subscription fee go up?
Will your SpaceX Starlink internet month subscription fee go down?
Is this good or bad for SpaceX Starlink and its customers?
Final question!
Should US Customers pay more than European customers?
All this and a lot more on today's VLOG.
Subscribe, Share, and Like if so inclined! Also, after watching, consider commenting!
Can't wait to hear from you in the comments below this video!
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I have been paying $120 for over a year I think. Probably because we use a lot with 5 children and I'm online most of the time too. We use between 1 and 2 terabytes a month.
It is really the only practical option we have. I live in southern MO, north end of Oregon county.
I was at $110 in May 2022 when I came online in Central Florida. Rates increased to $120 in MAY 2023, or one year ago.
The $120 was sadly the point I needed to make the switch off of Starlink. They within the last month finished running fiber county wide. The 1gig/1gig plan runs $109 with the base 200/200 plan be $65. So at $120 it was a no brainer to make the switch. I know of about 20 or so people in the county that have switched from Starlink over to the FTTH.
I enjoyed my time with Starlink and I think its a great option when no others are offered. But the price to performance when other options show up just does not stack up sadly in our area now.
Of course, the government states everything is fine and resilient economy. Then why all the debt and no savings. Credit card debt historic 1.3 trillion. Government 35 trillion in debt. 1.7 trillion deficit. How about surplus? Government took in 3.7 trillion in taxpayer dollars and spent over 6 trillion in 2023. Ouch!
I hear you saying they were lowering the price for where the Starlink had extra capacity on their system, but as I recall the narrative as of last year when they changed it, they gave the lower price to those with less competitor options. Meaning if they have only dial up, they would get cheaper rates, but if you have 6 providers going by with fiber and cable and you want Starlink, you have to pay for it. You seem to have it backwards.
I live in a very rural area where Starlink is the best option for me. If there is an increase I will have to pay. As far as I am concerned Starlink is the only company providing rural areas with true high speed internet. Our government give all of these telecom companies large grants for providing broadband infrastructure for rural areas, what a joke. I will stick with Elon and Starlink.
They need to decrease prices with the amount of customers they have. Along with the cost of equipment.
Soon... I believe.. Stay tuned.
Unfortunately whenever something like the sun deciding to blast Earth with a giant solar storm and SpaceX & Starlink have to take "countermeasures" to keep everything functioning... "the costs" whether they are "real" or "imagined" are the perfect opportunity to not drop their prices.
@@jcristina I think they just achieved cash flow positive this quarter for Starlink.
It's not fair to the people who have to pay 120 to 150 a month for their service the price should be the same across the board. Maybe make the price 105.00 for everyone. I have no answer that will satisfy everyone. I will keep my T mobile home Internet. No wires to worry about outside. 73
I pay 158 in Canada it’s wild. but that’s all I have. We have no high-speed. Not much you can do. if you want high speed, you gotta pay for it.
So, I wonder what market I'm (was) in. I got increased to $120 a month last year. I'm sure glad T-Mobile showed up. $50 a month for life. When is Starlink going to make good on the low cost internet Musk talked about in the beginning?
I have always paid 120. I think that it is a fair price for the service you get! I love Starlink!!!
I started at $99 then $110 and now $120
I've been at $120 in Southern Oregon for a while now
Same here in Central Florida. Speeds are very fluctuating.70-200 max. I however don’t care anymore. They just put fiber optics in my neighborhood so bye bye Starlink hello XFinity! I’m also getting package with cell phone and internet for $95 month. That’s less than the $120 I’m paying just for Starlink!
Been paying $120 since the beginning, too, here in Springfield, OR.
Forgive me, but after the first three minutes I was starting to think, "Get to the Pernt, Edith!"
I always skip ahead 3 minutes on his videos
3:30 to be precise. Exact reason he’s getting hidden from my feed.
Gotta hit that 10 minute mark for monetization lol
Completely understand. Skip ahead as folks have said as if I don’t ask people for their support or to subscribe it will never happen. Hope you keep enjoying the FREE content.
@@jcristina A small suggestion would be to put in time stamps in the video so that people know when your intro ends. I get you gotta do what you gotta do to earn money, but helping your viewers out would be appreciated as well.
I am definitely getting rid of my system, roaming-global raised the bill by 100% from 200 to 400 dollars. and yes i only use my system overseas....... its not bullshit you are bias.
Mine going up to $400 too. Absolutely ridiculous!!
Mine already went up. Bet it wont go down. Would gladly take a drop back to the original 99
I think he is going to start losing. Members getting to high and we still have to pay 600 dollars for the equipment
I have been looking at Starlink for a few years to use at a cabin and and rv when I travel. The monthly roaming fee keeps going up and up, and the reception is poor in tree covered areas. The $150 per month just doesn't make sense as a second service. We have abandoned Starlink for a cellular option.
I will stay with my cable/phone company (Xfinity/Comcast) because it works, it’s fast and it is much, MUCH cheaper.
Athens i pay 55€ the price in reality is 40€, i pay + 15 for the equipment. Europe will rise up more no matter if is very rear to find in Big city a spot. I was lucky and added it at 7th floor and the signal is clear sky full blue. As i know already in Germany T-Mobile will buy capacity to resell it, at Greece Is also the same to happen here By Cosmote one of our providers and the biggest. Someone insider told me that will be in packages 100mbps, 200mbps and more. I have back up internet 110mbps on landline. So if go up the price SpaceX losing me and sending the equipment back if needed, unless had it paid off. 25€ is the fiber at 1gbps. The reason i chose Starlink is because they cannot close only for me the full traffic road as leads to Hospital. I got bored with so many cancellations and postpones.
“Competitors like Kuiper may change pricing.”😂😂😂
Change what pricing?!? Like they’re charging someone now or in the next year(s).
More subscribers, should cost less. I am in a remote area and only have DSL 1.9 mb. I love the starlink, I have 2 meshes also. Great speeds and connectivity except in rain/thunderstorms.
Space X, Tesla motors, Tesla energy, etc., thinking way in the future not quarterly. Just like their car prices change almost daily they watch the economy and supply chains closely. Probably not much of a profit range with this new expensive technology. If Musk did not have his own reusable rockets there would be no Starlink.
I've been paying 120 since the beginning. It's ok, still better than what I had before.
Sounds like baiting. Places with lots of people already pay 120. Lowering price in other areas to get more people then will probably pay what others pay. Just marketing at its best, everybody else does this. Just set a price that everyone can afford, quit trying to stab people for future ventures. Be the company that helps everyone and affordable. Right now it's on the cusp of not affordable.
With our terrible high inflation compounded yearly, I do not think prices will go down on anything. High interest rates mean paying more dollars to past debt with less dollars for further innovation. Really hurts companies carrying a lot of debt QE means inflationary pressures as it inflated the monetary supply. The government caused this. You can blame Putin’s tax or whatever but inflation is a side effect of printing money out of thin air, devaluating the dollar. As long as the government keeps printing money(overspending) and deficit spending horrible inflation will continue, sadly. Companies like Space X doing the best they can with expensive new technology.
Starlink price is too much. I am currently receiving 1GB internet service for $65/month and just received a notice that my price did increase by $5 to this value.
Price reductions are likely a few years away. Starlink has a lot of buildout ahead of it.
500 TO700 USD PERMO LAST HEARD GRATER THAN CABLE DIRECT TV AIMED AT 3RD WORLD COUNTRIES NOT CABLE
Do you have any idea why I see “additional authentication is required for this payment” but it won’t redirect me to my banking page to authenticate
I received my Starlink August 2023. I have been paying $120 since installed. I'm not complaining. I'm still saving $ from what I have before and 100 percent better internet.
Exactly the same as I, Aug 2023, and $120. Starlink has been an amazing improvement to my life coming from windstream DSL, but it has an annoying problem every day at around 2-4am. It will have some kind of meltdown, when the system goes into restart mode or has some kind of downtime for a few minutes. It ranges from going offline completely for a few minutes to burping for a moment that kicks me offline my MMO games. According to one of them and the error code it gets, it's an error that only happens when your ISP is doing some kind of security check. But whatever I guess. Fiber line just got laid down at my home and am currently waiting for the ISP to contact me when it's my time in the que to get it installed to the house so it won't be long until I get the last internet I'll ever need.
I just wish when I go to sell my used SL kit, I could sell everything else I did to install it. Rohn 25G tower(free, 27' tall). The hole I dug. The concrete I bought. Everything was like 2k to make SL happen the way I wanted it, no thanks to trees. But I still have the tower for a cell booster and radio, I guess? Debated throwing my DISH sats up there for a better view of the sky. I suffer signal loss from trees so I get like a 60% signal at best....
The price is too much now. It should be around $75, I was about to sign up but not now. The equipment should be much less since it will be obsolete by year's end!
my starlink has always cost $120 there is no increase here just north of houston
Yes we do if it brings the price down Elon doesn’t care and they sent the email last weekend
My cost has been $120 for at least 6 months, maybe more.
The comments pay your fair share is right if you are out there and want internet u pay ? Sure it will get cheaper when the capacity is alot or will it time will tell hell i pay 50 gor my phone its gos in and out
For me, Starlink went up to $120/month 2 years ago and I dropped Starlink and went to 100Mb fiber service for $50/month. This is very old news for me.
Direct to phone is a scam just like the hyper loop scam
Starlink increased my price to $120 well over a year ago. So, for those of us here in the coastal regions of California, this is old news. But, if they raise it above $120 than I'll go back to Comcast.
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@jcristina what happened to starlink drop from 500 to 350miled?
It will happen. Not sure if they got authorization already.
Lets talk about the real reason prices keep going up........ government foolishly in charge of our currency!
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FEB 18, 2021 $99.00 until MAY 26, 2022 then it went to $110.00 then it went up again APR 26, 2023 to $120.00 and that is what I am currently paying. I live in mid Michigan area and my pop is in Chicago. So if the past trend continues it will probably go up to 130.00 a month for me :(
Nah. $120 will be your price if it does not go down to $90 in your area.
I just got an email saying my price was coming down to 90 from 110...? So is it going back up?
To be honest $10/mo is negligible, but clarity would be nice lol.
Musk companies really like to move prices arround at a whim.
Im in Central Iowa FYI
It will only go up if your location is now “limited” instead of “excessive”. Fingers crossed for you.
I have been paying $120.00 for quite some time… Glendale, Arizona
Likewise.
I live in Minnesota rural area was at the discounted price for 6 months, but just received the email of 120, witch I’m disappointed it’s crazy how much we have to pay and they know most of us will pay it because we don’t have another option, my service was flawless sense I’ve had playing Fortnite call of duty it worked amazing, but now last month or so lots of fluctuation in signal strength gaming hasn’t been the best, we recently got T-Mobile 5g home internet for a backup, and as a suppose it has been way better in latency and speed double the speed 250-500mb down 30-50mb upload and latency at 20-40ms and it’s only 50 bucks a month
Great speed.
Where did you get that Ms.Pacman light in the backgound???
Can you tell me where to get one please?
yak yak yak.... and the point is????? when I first sighed up it was $110. then a year or so later upped to $120. local phone company suppling high apeed int and phone was $115 per month but we only got 1mb per second and the phone service was scratchy at the best times.... since we live in a cell phone dead zone we didn't use them because the net was not fast enough... thankyou Elon for bringing us into the current century!!!!!
Rewatch the video when you get the chance to find the point. It’s there and in less the 15 mins.
They should stick to same price for everyone. My T-Mobile home internet is still going good. If satellite is only option $120 is still good deal. I used 1.1 TB of data now that I have high speed data. I can’t see going back to slower speeds
J, What if I don't have a T-Mobile cell phone. I am using Consumer Cellular on the AT&T cell tower. I do not believe my cell phone will work like a satellite phone on that system.
Only T-Mobile at first.
Understand that in the last 3.5 years the dollar has lost 26% of it’s buying power (inflation).
Pathetic. Maybe we will be able to fix this come November.
Here in Indiana, I'm paying $120/ month and we started at $100/month. So, I'm happy that this increase does not appear to affect us. Thank for tge timely update!
Same, I'm in Indiana, and it increased from $100 to $120 something like a year ago. I typically get at or above 100 Mbps down, and the alternative is cellular or a local wireless service, both of which I've tried and got me garbage speeds and pings. Starlink is awesome for me.
We live in farm country. We also have fiber (very recent from the power utility) and spectrum cable. It's 120 here. But it has been since last year. So I guess they are just expanding the rule moreso.
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It seems self explanatory to me. I read when I got my Starlink that some residential areas would be discounted because they were rural I believe. It was over a year ago I can’t remember specifics. They were discounted to $90. Now those people will just have to pay the $120 like literally everyone else. It does not take a 15 minute video to figure it out. It’s not a mystery. It’s not a conspiracy. I hate Musk but this isn’t the mountain people are making it out to be it’s a mole hill and y’all are bored
…and some other people might have their monthly fee go down. Depending on if their location is categorized as “limited” or “excessive” availability.
I’ve had Starlink for 3 yrs. In northern WI. About a year ago they raised my monthly cost to $120. Have version 1 of the dishy and have never had a problem! So can I assume there is a group of people that may not be affected?
You would not be affected.
So no change at all for me, at least - fulltime RV'er with roaming package, 150 a month already.
Sweeeeet
i have been paying roughly $115 USD a month for starlink that last year they had increased the price in Canada here a bit back but hopefully they can come up with something that is much more affordable, but starlink is the only internet I can get over 10 megabits per second download on so oh well I guess.
Great service though.
I'm really glad I dumped Starlink. $1440 a year is pretty pricey. I feel sorry for those who have no other source of Internet connectivity. 5G cell service is a possible alternative for some rural residents. It's slower speed is adequate for most users and a lot more affordable.
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Keep it, over priced
Hi there, thank you for this interesting video ! I have a question, do you know if I can buy a starlink in England and bring it by car to switzerland and use it there ? My reason is that the new gen 3 is still not available here in switzerland but is in England, will I encounter issues ?
Easy way of knowing is to go to starlink.com/map
This video made me a little nervous at first. I'm remote rural.
When I bought my Starlink in October of 2023, my monthly service price was declared at $120/month.
Century Link was charging me just over $134/month for basically enhanced dial up speeds with DSL and constant (sometimes extended) outages.
With the future deployment of the 4X satellites, I hope that an app will be developed where we can just install it on whatever phone we have and maintain whatever cell service have or prefer and connect to these new satellites in the future. T-Mobile is my enemy!
I have a severe beef with T Mobile when they lied to us about service to our location and charged us $600 to cancel, after we moved here in 2006.
I will not be bound to any contract hence, I use Cricket wireless. It's a rare day that I've ever had an issue with Cricket for about a decade now.
Also, no cell signal at my location, unless I walk out to a couple of particular spots on my land, sacrifice a chicken while I'm standing on one foot to connect to the AT&T tower that's only a couple of miles away.
I'm looking forward to the day where I can take my hand held computer/ phone anywhere on my farm.
I don't mind the price increase but at some point soon the upload speeds are going to have improve dramatically. I can't even talk in discord without auto tuning most of the time.
Upload is the bane of all internet service besides fiber.
120 a month was enough to make me go elsewhere...
Went from $90 to $120 a month that's a 33.333% increase for me.
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They will all be limited capacity. If it raises again consider me gone!
I bet you’re right. 2.9 million now customers.
Keep the "housekeeping" to 30 seconds max
Thanks John.
I started at $110 and it almost immediately went up to $120. My neighbors on the other side of the creek have fiber which costs $70 and they have consistent speeds of 900+ both down and up!
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I went from reduced (90) to standard (120) starting in June. Surprising considering I live in a sparsely populated area relative to the rest of the US. Northern Maine.
Mine went up to $120 from $90 because I'm in a "congested" area about a year ago. I can't wait for more of the laser v2 satellites to fly over Texas, or a groundstation less than 350 miles from me so I can go back to $90 or $99.
It's still better than DSL or fixed wireless or LTE that are my other options.
Keep on keepin' on, man!
I’m in Southern Illinois. Have had SL for almost one year. I pay 120.00 a month.
Likewise
High competition means Lower prices!
Absolutely.
cope
Isn’t that the same email from a few years ago when they hiked the price?
I would not doubt it.
A delicate game they play. It seems like they almost want to push out all customers who have other options and concentrate and getting as much money as possible for others with no other choice. Rural choices are slowly improving with 5G mobile internet and WISPs improving capacity and speeds. Rural customers near me can get up to 100mbit service with WISP for $73 /month which is more than enough for most families in my opinion. I was a big fan of Starlink initially but $120 a month is steep.
ISPs have always taken advantage of rural America by making it pay way more for internet than city dwellers. There's steep competition in the city and people enjoy like 20 or 30 dollar broadband internet ffs. These ISPs are not broke. They have huge profits. And they stick it to us rural folk. As they wipe away their tears with hundred dollar bills while they justify their prices with the cost of getting internet to us, they are buying up other businesses to merge with or dissolve altogether to increase their profits further.
SL continues this tradition but takes it to the next level - making us buy the equipment, install said equipment ourselves, AND charging us $120 < insert price here > per month while not even being a proper ISP because they want to avoid liability and legal problems and hurdles. And Elon thought there would be 20 million people to sign up for this in just the first year or two? lmao it might have happened if there wasn't that massive $500 pay wall in the way. Eat everything you can and when you finally break even, everything after that is money straight from the printer. It's a cash cow. It's a money tree. It's sitting there, ready to be claimed. But it never will be claimed as long as that $500 pay wall exists, and honestly do we want it to get claimed? We're having bandwidth problems at just 2 or 3 million users. I've been getting some terrible pixeled streaming video lately through out the day. The speed varies greatly from second to second. Wireless internet will always find a way to suck, from ISPs to your house WiFi.
I pay $147 per month Canadian right now.....still worth it. Living in rural Alberta it's all we have but really worth it.
I've been paying $120 since Feb 2023.
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My Roam Global went up from $200 to $400. I’m on Ascension Island
Ouch
@@jcristina yeah man, as did everyone on the island. 🫨
I do enjoy your lack of sarcasm and great respect for regulation of markets.
More government regulation is always the best solution!
In fact, the Pubic Utilities Commission regulations are working so good in California to require only specific types of power generation that I’m paying an average of 38 cents per KWh. think it might be part of the Green New Deal🤷
Now that’s sarcastic. 😝
I'm ditching my starlink as soon as fiber comes through here. I'm done with screwing the consumer over the shareholders
You should ALWAYS go to cable/fiber internet over Starlink if it’s available. It will always be better service and less expensive. (At least for many many years to come.)
Plus you’d unnecessarily be taking valuable bandwidth from those who need it.
Since you and I live in the same state and we both pay 120 it’d be nice if it came down a little but if not, I can live with it. Love the service and love your videos. Keep up the good work.
Add me to that as it has been $120 here in Florida for a long time.
It's simple sumnaggery. The price increase was to customers with no viable choice ,rural customers. Lower prices for urban customers. It's a subsidy for urban customers. It is a 30% increase. The excess capacity isn't Starlinks capacity it total capacity meaning fiber is available. You can fair share all you want. It's taking advantage of monopoly on the customer base. Also now we are supposed to think $110 dollars is a price drop when its actually still $20 more expensive. Logic and math, what even is it?
Starlink's competitors Project Kuiper and Oneweb? Was that the joke of the day? How many satellites does PK have up currently? 2, that's right a total of two.
I pay 120... I was paying 220+ with the LOCAL service, for 2 DSL lines.. to get a WHOPPING 32mps service. Starlink cut my costs nearly IN HALF.. and My LOWEST speed has still been 60 mps.. highest 228 or so. No beefing here. Seems too many out there are SPOILED, because they have a lot of other ISP access to compare to that many of us out here DO NOT. Ours was local phone outfit rip off deal, or NOTHING before Starlink. So whine elsewhere. Geez...
Central Indiana we started off paying $110, but the last year has been at $120/mo. No complaints. They replaced our dish when we had a huge hail storm and didn't bat an eye or charge me anything for the change-out. Customer service has been great. I bought another router also so the entire house is now in great coverage.
I am NOT a SpaceX or Elon hater. I love what their technology is doing. I just don't think they are going to achieve their goals by increasing pricing. I, living in remote (middle of the woods) northern Wisconsin, was at $120 all the way until the end of February because that was when 1GB/1GB fiber was installed at my house.... FOR $69/MONTH!. That amount includes the lease/insurance on the modem/router. That price is LOCKED IN as long as I keep the same service.
SpaceX is going in the wrong direction.
I am dropping my Starlink this month. I have moved to Verizon 5g recently available in my area $45 per month
Great price if you can get 5G and not LTE like me. 😉
@@jcristina 5G Ultra Wideband. I can see both my 5g signal strength and the 4g signal strength from my WNC-CR200A
@@jcristina about 300 down and 25 up
I pay 400$ for global mobile in Afghanistan
Double price now
@@jcristina yes
If you look at the availability map and observe the Southeast, about the only spot without coverage is a tiny dot above the F in FLA. That's my house. LOL
I can't afford it anyway.
I was also afraid the price would jump even if I was able to afford the dish.
Look what Elon did with Cybertruck. He has shitloads of pre-orders so he not only doubled the price from the original $40k, he threw another $20k on top of that and gave people a couple of decals and some promises in exchange.
Starlink website has The avaiability map with The crowded places….
I was at $90/mo but have been notified it's going up to $120. I am not sure I will keep the service at that price. Something psychological about
Its actually much cheaper in Europe. Even in Switzerland its only 65Chf, maybe because of the low amount of users and low amount of people with bad internet?
I’m being increased from $300 aud to $670 and my service has degraded. Devastated- this is my livelihood
My $120 every month would be freely given each month just to see another human being step on Mars. I wish we could have a Mars foundation not with the government they would spend it on other shit. Tax free foundation. All the heads of aerospace no NASA bureaucrats
Common Sense Skeptic has done a thorough job on explaining why Starlink has nearly 0 chance of becoming profitable... that the only people who could benefit from having Starlink is the people with no other options... the drawbacks of the system existing at all are extensive. Military applications and remote areas are the only place where the service could be worth while. Thunderf00t also does a thorough job of explaining how Starlink has next to zero chance of turning a profit.
Will the roaming package also be effected in the price hike?
Been paying $120 for years. So maybe the folks who have been underpaying will finally pay what most of us do? I'll take that lol.
im currently living in mexico i payed full price for v2 antena, at first they where charging 65 dollars than dropped it to 60 bucks.
So I had a bit different scenario… I have Starlink at my summer place on cape Cod… last summer I paid $90 month (standard-discounted rate).. at the end of the summer season, I switched to mobile so I could pause service rather than cancel… system remained paused all winter… 2 weeks ago a resumed service back on standard assuming I’d be back on $90 plan… well, the residential plan was now $120.. fine… I assumed my are was no longer excess capacity… and with all the price increase articles I was reading in the last few weeks I assumed standard-discounted was no longer a thing… today I get an email saying effective today, my price is going back down to $90… so I’m not sure why when I activated 2 weeks ago, initial pricing was $120
The reason I was not an early adopter was that the I fear that the price could be hiked AFTER I have made the non-recurring $600 front end investment.
Makes sense. Now they have a $1 30-day trail which is kinda nice.
Due to congress passing bill to run internet to all rural customers Starlink will eventually go out. I live in KY way out in country. Spectrum has started running lines along telephone poles. Cost for me will go to half with more speed. Why would anyone pay for Starlink.
This changes nothing for me. So far, I haven't had any issues. 👍🏻☕️
Here in Portugal the price is much lower, residential is €225 to purchase equipment and €40/month, although it is all Gen 2. So it may seem like "why gripe at threat of cost increase, you get it cheap anyway." The slight problem I have is that I'm about to purchase Starlink and all my calculations were based on current prices and the similar monopoly here that the Telcomm compaines such as MEO, NOS and Vodaphone here have in Portugal with poor coverage in the countryside. I guess if Starlink increase the prices here (at some point) we won't get a free upgrade to Gen 3 equipment either. Interesting times, I'll still go for Starlink I think as the serveice will still be far better than what I currently have.Thank you Joseph for your insight and evaluation I find it very useful👍👍👍
Mines been $120 for months now, even though very few have it. Still waiting for the ground station that is 25 miles away to come online. If it goes up any more, I'm going to get rid of it and go back to my MoFi cell modem. Yeah the download speed is 1/4th the price but the upload speed was faster ... and it only cost $25 a month.
Elon uses Starlink to help fund Starship mission to Mars so that he can save Mankind. So if he squeezes every dime out of you that he can, he feels totally righteous in doing so.
Yea, the prices need to decrease. I'm paying $120 right now and that is as much as I will pay. If it goes higher I will look at alternative service like Wireless Services. This isn't fiber and not worth paying more. I think Starlink will lose customers if they trying hiking their prices again. They have more subscribers now, so they don't need to raise prices.
The new Gen 3 Starlink is not available in Canada yet. If I order one in the US and bring it to Canada, will it work ok? (assuming I would need to have a Canadian Starlink account)?
I've been paying $120 for months already.