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Yes, currently, but I don't think anyone expects this to be their policy in the future.

• simias 6y ago
  What makes you say that? I haven't followed StarLink very closely but it seems to me that in order to be competitive and maximize profits it would be extremely beneficial for them to have regional pricing policies.
  • iso1210 6y ago
    They've said they want to allow moving dishes What the price options looks like in 12-24 months time is anyones guess. Personally I'd love to buy 250 dishes (at full price, $2k each or whatever), but skip the monthly charge (or have some sort of pool agreement)
  • samatman 6y ago
    Assigning a price to a given (large) region is the easy part. The hard part is cache invalidation! For a stationary Starlink dish, every satellite knows which cell a given dish is in, and they cooperate to route packets to that cell when they can. For a mobile Starlink dish, they have to be able to invalidate that cache every time it moves, instead of having a cushion of a few hours for the occasional move. It can be done, but I don't blame them for punting on that problem for awhile.