Those who live in rural areas where broadband does not arrive, will soon have one more option to bet on. The so-called space internet offered by Elon Musk’s Starlink satellites in fact, it will begin offering its services in a beta phase, while launches into orbit will continue to upgrade and complete the network.
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It starts at $ 99 a month
As stated in an email sent to a small group of potential customers in US states such as Washington, Wisconsin and Idaho and in Canada, the service it will cost $ 99 a month to which is added the initial cost of $ 499 for the purchase of the necessary kit which includes a device to connect to the satellites and the Wi-Fi router. Interested parties should be around 700,000 and they were asked not to disclose the information contained in the same email.
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Between 50 and 150 Megabits per second
Better Than Nothing Beta, so renamed the service in beta, will guarantee one connection speed between 50 and 150 Megabits per second with a latency between 20 and 40 milliseconds. But from Starlink they let it be known that in some moments no connectivity will be available. The objective is obviously to improve performance already in 2021 thanks to the launch of other satellites.
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Up to 12 thousand satellites
At the moment there are about 800 in orbit, of which the last 60 were sent only a few days ago, but the project he expects to have 12,000 to get to support all applications on the network. Only in this way will it be possible to achieve complete coverage of the earth’s surface which will also include those areas not served by broadband.
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October 28, 2020 (change October 28, 2020 | 18:39)
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