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ALL these idiots do not know they will be selectively charged pricing based on GPS LOCATION 4 years from now.

For 4 years it is miraculous, low latency, cheap, fast, and near unlimited... but in 4 years, if you are in a GPS location lacking cable your fees will be 500% higher, and if no CELL PHONE access either... your fees will be OVER 20 times higher per month.

I can fucking guarantee its the business model.

Use in ocean transit? === TOP DOLLAR!!!

Use in africa? === TOP DOLLAR!!!

Use in brazil jungles? === TOP DOLLAR!!!

Use in north or south poles? === TOP DOLLAR!!!

It is only amazing because this retard did not know that he cannot sign a multiyear contract if he lives far from cable modem service areas.... even in rural USA he cant.

He is a fool and idiot for not knowing this entire thing is a bait and switch.

It is proven to be amazingly fast for video gaming online : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fh1a2K9ZgNA

This is because low latency has never been a goal of normal internet infrastructure yet, and low latency is the only goal of Starlink.

Someone needs to pay for billions of dollars of satellites. Its people that have no options.

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I think you're wrong. Any stratification in the pricing model will most likely be for businesses and governments looking to selectively avoid certain countries or data centres/hubs.

I bought it to stream and run security cameras at the cabin. I currently pay 75$/month for cell phone based internet which gives me 100 gigs at 3.5 Mbps. Starlink is a much better deal.

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YOU MISREAD EVERY WORD I WROTE!!!

How the fuck am I wrong ?!!?!?!!?!?!

I wrote IN FOUR YEARS the price jumps.

How the fuck am I wrong?

It will jump to what the market can bear for people with zero alternative options.

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Tell me why it's exactly four years, why not two, three, five, or ten?

All prices rise. Yes the price will be more in four years than it is today. Good job man!

I think you should look at the orbits of the satellites maybe then you'll get a clue as to why position based pricing doesn't make sense.

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I'm not sure where you're at, but huge sections of North & Central America, Australia, & across rural Europe have zero high-speed options or are limited to one ISP.

One of the big points is that Starlink does not have bandwidth caps because it's their own network so they're not having to pay other ISPs for fiber network access.

Elon can & will use Starlink to undercut ISPs around the world.

It wouldn't surprise me if Elon/SpaceX also ends up buying DirectTV from AT&T.

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Another screaming village idiot, blocked.