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Yes, currently, but I don't think anyone expects this to be their policy in the future.


What makes you say that? I haven't followed StarLink very closely but it seems to me that in order to be competitive and maximize profits it would be extremely beneficial for them to have regional pricing policies.


They've said they want to allow moving dishes

What the price options looks like in 12-24 months time is anyones guess. Personally I'd love to buy 250 dishes (at full price, $2k each or whatever), but skip the monthly charge (or have some sort of pool agreement)


Assigning a price to a given (large) region is the easy part.

The hard part is cache invalidation! For a stationary Starlink dish, every satellite knows which cell a given dish is in, and they cooperate to route packets to that cell when they can.

For a mobile Starlink dish, they have to be able to invalidate that cache every time it moves, instead of having a cushion of a few hours for the occasional move.

It can be done, but I don't blame them for punting on that problem for awhile.




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