SpaceX president: No plans to add price tiers to Starlink satellite internet

SpaceX has no plans to introduce tiered pricing to Starlink, the corporate’s satellite tv for pc web service, SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell mentioned throughout a digital panel Tuesday.

“I do not suppose we’ll do tiered pricing to shoppers,” Shotwell mentioned through the Satellite 2021 Leo Digital Forum. “We will attempt to hold it so simple as doable and clear as doable, so proper now there are not any plans to tier for shoppers.”

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At the moment in open beta and boasting greater than 10,000 customers throughout the US, Canada and different choose areas, Starlink prices $100 per 30 days after a $500 deposit to cowl the price of the receiver dish. A tiered pricing strategy would provide a number of plans with totally different capabilities at totally different costs — however SpaceX appears extra inclined to go along with a single, easy providing.

In our preliminary assessments, Starlink’s satellite tv for pc web service was capable of hit common obtain speeds of about 78 megabits per second, with latency or lag of about 36 milliseconds. Each of these figures are fairly first rate for satellite tv for pc web, which guarantees to deliver connectivity to locations that lack entry to ground-laid fiber or cable infrastructure. Earlier this 12 months, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk mentioned that Starlink’s high speeds would rise as excessive as 300Mbps by the tip of 2021.

Service protection is predicted to unfold as SpaceX is ready to efficiently launch extra satellites into orbit. So far, the corporate has launched over 1,200 satellites into its “constellation,” with plans so as to add 1000’s extra within the coming years.