Tag: Starlink
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Starlink Added About One Million Customers in the Last Nine Months
On Saturday, SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet provider said it now has over 2 million active customers. This milestone means that Starlink gained about a million customers in the last nine months. “Starlink is available on all 7 continents, in over 60 countries and many more markets, connecting 2M+ active customers and counting with high-speed internet,”…
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New Portable Mini Starlink Dish Approved By FCC
SpaceX could soon operate two new Starlink dishes after the Federal Communications Commission approved its application on Tuesday, according to a filing spotted earlier by PCMag. The first device is about the size of an Apple MacBook — smaller than SpaceX’s first-generation Starlink dish — and will likely be portable. The second dish builds on…
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Starlink Has 1.5 Million Customers, Far Short of its Goal of 20 Million by 2022
When SpaceX launched Starlink, the company anticipated reaching 20 million users by 2022. However, by the end of last year, the satellite internet provider fell short of that goal, nabbing only 1 million customers. Its current base now stands at 1.5 million, according to The Wall Street Journal. Starlink’s revenue last year totaled $1.4 billion,…
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Starlink Reportedly Has 1.5 Million Customers, Far Short of its Goal of 20 Million by 2022
When SpaceX launched Starlink, the company anticipated reaching 20 million users by 2022. However, by the end of last year, the satellite internet provider fell short of that goal, nabbing only 1 million customers. Its current base now stands at 1.5 million, according to The Wall Street Journal. Starlink’s revenue last year totaled $1.4 billion,…
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SpaceX’s Starlink is Now Closer to Profitability
For years now, SpaceX’s Starlink internet service has been selling its equipment at a loss. Now though, SpaceX has announced that it has now improved its production so that it can sell Starlink satellite kits without losing money. “We were subsidizing terminals but we’ve been iterating on our terminal production so much that we’re no…
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SpaceX’s Starlink Internet Went Down Today But Has Now Been Fixed
If you have Starlink internet from SpaceX you may be one of many that are suffering an internet outage. SpaceX has confirmed that they are currently experiencing a network outage and are busy working to resolve it. Update: Starlink says the service has been restored: There is no official word yet on the network coming…
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AT&T is Adding Thousands of Customers to its Faster Standalone 5G Network Each Day
AT&T said that it is adding thousands of new customers every single day to its standalone 5G network, which include subscribers to its burgeoning Internet Air home broadband business Standalone 5G is an important step in the evolution of 5G, because the connection runs entirely on a system optimized for the next-generation wireless technology. 5G…
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SpaceX’s Starlink Service is Improving Its Service to Rural Americans
When SpaceX’s Starlink service first launched, one of the complaints customers had about the service was slow speeds and disconnects. A lot of this was due to the limited number of satellites in space. Now, Starlink has over 5,000 satellites in space, with the first set of second-generation satellites now live. These new satellites are…
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Amazon Sued Over Its New Cheap Home Internet Service As Investors Push Back
Investors filed a lawsuit against Amazon, alleging the company didn’t properly field competing proposals before choosing Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin startup to launch the satellites for its new home internet service, code-named Project Kuiper. Amazon decided to accept Blue Origin’s launch contract after spending less than an hour reviewing it, according to the suit’s plaintiff,…
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Starlink’s Availability Map Now Tells You How Fast Internet is In Your State
SpaceX updated its Starlink coverage map to now let you know how fast its internet connection is in your state. Previously, the availability map let people check if coverage was available as Starlink rolled out across the globe. As more satellites enter low-Earth orbit to widen its coverage area, the map has evolved to help…