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Makes sense. This is the target demographic for this service. Each ship can then split the bandwidth up into nice rentable subsets and charge an arm and a leg
by mabbo 4y ago
Makes sense. This is the target demographic for this service.
Each ship can then split the bandwidth up into nice rentable subsets and charge an arm and a leg to guests so they can watch YouTube.
- toomuchtodo 4y agoRCCL charges, last time I checked, $20/day (which does not seem onerous for access to high speed internet on the ocean) for customers to use internet on each vessel (this might have changed, haven't been on one of their boats since COVID started). Access for crew and staff is heavily subsidized as a perk. This is more of a high volume customer selecting a vendor who can provide a better offering (versus O3b MEO [1]) at possibly a better cost (at volume) imho. TLDR SpaceX via Starlink is eating the TAM of disparate satellite data providers (Iridium via T-mobile partnership and direct US DoD sales, O3B and OneWeb via mobile terminals and high end marine/aircraft deals, etc). When you've made enough rockets, you go where the margin is (which, for global satellite comms, is ~$75B/year). [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O3b https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O3b
- radicaldreamer 4y agoA lot of cruises have free on-board internet, especially those aimed at a younger audience.
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- danpalmer 4y ago> RCCL charges, last time I checked, $20/day (which does not seem onerous for access to high speed internet on the ocean) This seems quite high to me. $20/day for a full working day of access, fine. But for checking my email once a day while on holiday to see if anything urgent has come in? That's excessive!
- macksd 4y agoAlso from my recent experience on RCCL, it was not working all day. I would attempt to refresh a messaging app periodically during the day and have it fail half the time.
- CreepGin 4y agoThis is my experience as well. Just came back from RCCL last week. We bought the "Streaming" package for internet access ($100+ for 7 days). But we couldn't get any connection half of the time.
- andrew_ 4y agotheir onboard networks are frequently oversaturated amd. most of the boats in service are over 20 years old and lack the infrastructure, with wifi networks pieced together with cheap consumer grade hardware. The RC cruise I went on for my bachelor party a few years back had el cheapo Netgear routers dotted around the coridoors, ziptied to cat5 cables in turn ziptied to exiting lines and conduits, which gave us a chuckle.
- 14 4y agoPeople will gladly pay $10,$20, $30 dollars without flinching for things line cigarettes or alcohol. I would bet people are more addicted to the internet then those things. Not a lot of people can disconnect easily like us HN crowd /s.
- TigeriusKirk 4y agoIt's less than "resort fees" some hotels charge for what is basically wifi access.
- kenjackson 4y agoFor that cellular data is fine and cheaper.
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- rascul 4y ago> $20/day (which does not seem onerous for access to high speed internet on the ocean) Seems onerous to me when considering that it's shared with x other people. But I also don't know anything about cruise ship internet economics.
- sgtnoodle 4y agoWe paid like $350 for a couples massage on a cruise. It was almost worth it, until in our relaxed state the spa workers tried to sell us $80 lemon water claiming it would cure chronic diseases, and my blood pressure shot up to its max.
- tjbiddle 4y agoUpsells after, or God-forbid, during a massage are just the absolute worst. Let me just lay down and forget the world for an hour and leave in bliss please.
- dataengineer56 4y ago"That's a tight shoulder you've got there, it would be a shame if I accidentally missed it."
- justsomeuser 4y agoI had a similar experience after a massage. She tried to sell me "energising face moisturiser" for $150. I said I would feel more energised keeping the money in my pocket.
- matthewcford 4y agoIt's only good for the occasional email, in some ways its a great way to disconnect
- shaklee3 4y agocruise ships, like airlines are notorious penny pinchers. this is more for publicity than anything. keep in mind that beams are full now will only a couple thousand active users, which is what these large ships have. they'll have to charge a lot to keep the usage down.
- ecpottinger 4y agoPlease note I have not cruised the last two years, but I remember there was something like a $5 a day option on Carnival for email only, no web browse just email.