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So how about their business plans? Are they served by bespoke satellites or is it possible the $500/month plan could be 110mbs too, on a busy day?
by tomcam 2y ago
So how about their business plans? Are they served by bespoke satellites or is it possible the $500/month plan could be 110mbs too, on a busy day?
- oskarkk 2y agoThe business plans have some amount of data that has priority - I see on the website that it's 2TB/month for $500/month, and after that there's unlimited non-priority data. So on the busy day the business with priority data would have good speeds, while others would have slow speeds. It's just like controlling how much time is allocated by the satellite for transmissions to business users. I think all the satellites provide service for all users, but they differ in bandwidth (older sats have less), and additional capabilities - some sats have laser satellite-to-satellite links that allow Starlink to have connection even in places where there's no ground station nearby (like in the middle of the ocean), and some sats have "direct to cell" antennas that will provide low-speed LTE connection to regular smartphones (that's not available yet, but will be next year).