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This article brings way more questions than it answers like: 1. Starlink has more than 20K customers, can I get Starlink at home? 2. A) What if I live so
by Habgdnv 2y ago
This article brings way more questions than it answers like:
1. Starlink has more than 20K customers, can I get Starlink at home?
2.
A) What if I live somewhere remote and the nearest cable is 20 miles from home?
B) If Verizon has cable but I want Xfinity, should they be forced to dig 20 miles to my home?
C) I am waiting more than 14 days for this 20-mile cable to come to my home and I am running out of patience. How long can they stall this?
3. Will there be a cap on how many customers can access the $15 plan per ISP?
What if we all hate Verizon and make a hidden Facebook group where we all choose to go to Verizon for this cheap internet (for example)?
4. If someone is already locked into a long-term contract with a higher price, can they switch immediately to the $15 plan without penalty?
5. Will the $15 plan include unlimited data, or can ISPs impose data caps?
So far in the article I saw only bandwidth requirements—no mention of data caps or latency.
6. What happens to customers if their ISP gets an exemption after initially offering the $15/$20 plan?
I am sure the lawmakers had good (PR) intentions here, and probably my questions are already answered, but this article is in pure Ars style.
I'm not even from the USA, I'm just curious how these things work.
Edit: Formatting and swapped ISP names in the examples
- Dylan16807 2y ago1. It has to be 20k in the state. And they might get an exception for dish cost, at least right now. 2. I don't see anything that affects who they offer service to, so no mandatory expansion. 3. No, because that's silly. 4. I don't see a mechanism for that. 5. It doesn't mention caps. I would expect latency problems to get punished as improper service. 6. Why would that happen? That seems like quite a small edge case.