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$500/month for 350Mbps! What exactly is Elon been smoking?! Okay, it's mobile... given you have electricity, of course, but if you have electricity, won't you h

$500/month for 350Mbps! What exactly is Elon been smoking?! Okay, it's mobile... given you have electricity, of course, but if you have electricity, won't you have other options as well?

wolrah 5y ago
> but if you have electricity, won't you have other options as well? No. There's a huge chunk of North America by area that does not have 100+mbit/sec broadband. Most of those areas don't have huge population, but those who are there sometimes are there for good reasons. Starlink is wonderful for those people. There are a lot of people who have delusions that Starlink is going to have a significant impact on mainstream wireline broadband providers, which is absurd, but there's a lot of the world that still has nothing even close to what this service offers. If (and this is a massive IF) they get the laser linking working it'll be huge for the aviation and marine worlds but even as is it's the best thing to happen to rural broadband service in years. --- Personally I hope they get mobile service for RVs working soon, all I need to work is reliable low-latency internet access so if I can theoretically get it from anywhere in the country I am free.
danielsju6 5y ago
I pay $700/mn for 200/200mbs fiber, in an rural area where 10/1mbs DSL is the only other option. Seems like it’s competitive to me.
- veb 5y ago
  NZ has done the high speed fibre roll out really nicely - this includes small rural towns (1,600 people, 433 people from two rural areas near me) this is gigabit fibre. It costs about $95 NZD a month for 1000Mbps/500Mbps unlimited. For those who are in the cities (like me), we have access to "hyperfibre" which is like 2Gbps which costs about $150-$200 NZD a month (unlimited). They've even been trialling 10Gbps! https://company.chorus.co.nz/chorus-supercharges-new-zealands-broadband-10gbps-trial https://company.chorus.co.nz/chorus-supercharges-new-zealand...
unionpivo 5y ago
Nope plenty of land in USA (and some other developing nations.) , where slow phone lines or not even that is an option. Maybe you have an ISP and want a backup, or maybe you have limited bandwidth and want more, etc. This thing is also mobile. Maybe you are touring show/band/tradeshows and sometimes venue provided internet is crap and want a backup. Or maybe you are youtube/regular TV show inspired by mythbusters , that needs to go to desert/exotic locale to test/blow something up. And even where there is an options its sometimes really bad and expensive. This probably won't set world on fire, but I see it quite useful to number of companies.
- nikolay 5y ago
  This speaks so badly about America, but you're right - I know at least two pretty large and heavily-populated dead spots in the heart of Irvine, California.

$500/month for 350Mbps! What exactly is Elon been smoking?! Okay, it's mobile... given you have electricity, of course, but if you have electricity, won't you have other options as well?

wolrah 5y ago

> but if you have electricity, won't you have other options as well? No. There's a huge chunk of North America by area that does not have 100+mbit/sec broadband. Most of those areas don't have huge population, but those who are there sometimes are there for good reasons. Starlink is wonderful for those people. There are a lot of people who have delusions that Starlink is going to have a significant impact on mainstream wireline broadband providers, which is absurd, but there's a lot of the world that still has nothing even close to what this service offers. If (and this is a massive IF) they get the laser linking working it'll be huge for the aviation and marine worlds but even as is it's the best thing to happen to rural broadband service in years. --- Personally I hope they get mobile service for RVs working soon, all I need to work is reliable low-latency internet access so if I can theoretically get it from anywhere in the country I am free.

danielsju6 5y ago

I pay $700/mn for 200/200mbs fiber, in an rural area where 10/1mbs DSL is the only other option. Seems like it’s competitive to me.

veb 5y ago
NZ has done the high speed fibre roll out really nicely - this includes small rural towns (1,600 people, 433 people from two rural areas near me) this is gigabit fibre. It costs about $95 NZD a month for 1000Mbps/500Mbps unlimited. For those who are in the cities (like me), we have access to "hyperfibre" which is like 2Gbps which costs about $150-$200 NZD a month (unlimited). They've even been trialling 10Gbps! https://company.chorus.co.nz/chorus-supercharges-new-zealands-broadband-10gbps-trial https://company.chorus.co.nz/chorus-supercharges-new-zealand...

unionpivo 5y ago

Nope plenty of land in USA (and some other developing nations.) , where slow phone lines or not even that is an option. Maybe you have an ISP and want a backup, or maybe you have limited bandwidth and want more, etc. This thing is also mobile. Maybe you are touring show/band/tradeshows and sometimes venue provided internet is crap and want a backup. Or maybe you are youtube/regular TV show inspired by mythbusters , that needs to go to desert/exotic locale to test/blow something up. And even where there is an options its sometimes really bad and expensive. This probably won't set world on fire, but I see it quite useful to number of companies.

nikolay 5y ago
This speaks so badly about America, but you're right - I know at least two pretty large and heavily-populated dead spots in the heart of Irvine, California.