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Posts about deprioritization written by Karl Bode

SpaceX added a new policy on data use that will result in “slower speeds” for customers who use one terabyte of data per month during “peak hours.”

We'd noted a few times how Elon Musk's Starlink isn't really as disruptive as it pretends to be. For one, the service keeps getting more expensive thanks to price hikes, and with a $710 first month price tag ($600 hardware fee, $110 a month) it's too expensive for the struggling rural Americans it's purportedly aimed…

Starlink’s satellite internet service will be introducing a data cap for Canadian and U.S. users beginning in December 2022, the company announced in emails to its subscribers. In an email obtained by IT World Canada, the company informed its residential internet subscribers that it will be introducing a fair use policy that will throttle its

Posts about throttling written by Karl Bode and Techdirt

SpaceX’s Starlink internet is arguably the best satellite internet solution on Earth, even if it doesn’t come exactly cheap. Since the subscr...

Posts about usage caps written by Karl Bode and Techdirt

Starlink plans to limit Internet subscribers in the United States who consume more than 1 TB of data per month from December 2022.

After the new policies come into effect in December, standard residential users will start each month with 1 TB of "Priority Access" included in their $110 monthly...

Starlink will now introduce a soft data cap of 1 TB for residential users as the internet service expands to Alaska, Canada, and the polar regions.