Some interesting perspective from former ambassador of Zimbabwe to China. I don't know what kind of pull he has within the Zimbabwe political establishment.Starlink's introduction to Zimbabwe appears to have some political importance. More than in the United States or Europe.<snip>
Starlink’s high-speed internet is now available in Honduras 🛰️🇭🇳 ❤️ →
India to allot satellite internet airwaves without auction in win for MuskBENGALURU, Dec 18 (Reuters) - India has proposed a licensing approach to assigning spectrum for satellite internet services and exempt companies from having to bid for it, a win for Elon Musk's venture Starlink which has lobbied hard against any auctions.The proposal was included in a new draft bill for the telecommunications sector, which seeks to replace the 138-year old Indian Telegraph Act that currently governs the sector. The bill was tabled for approval in parliament on Monday.
Starlink is now live in Eswatini, marking the 8th country and 10 overall market in Africa where service is available 🛰️🌍❤️ → starlink.com/map?country=SZ
Starlink is now available in Paraguay, making it the 70th country on Earth where people can get connected by high-speed, low-latency internet from space🛰️🇵🇾❤️ → https://starlink.com/map?country=PY
"Starlink is connecting more than 2.3M people in over 70 countries"x.com/Starlink/status/1738025258089935219?s=20
Quote from the official SX account on X.comQuote"Starlink is connecting more than 2.3M people in over 70 countries"x.com/Starlink/status/1738025258089935219?s=20Using a rough estimate of $100 per person per month that is $2.7 billion dollars a year revenue
Quote from: freddo411 on 12/22/2023 12:51 pmQuote from the official SX account on X.comQuote"Starlink is connecting more than 2.3M people in over 70 countries"x.com/Starlink/status/1738025258089935219?s=20Using a rough estimate of $100 per person per month that is $2.7 billion dollars a year revenueNote that this marketing post says "2.3M people", not "2.3M accounts"If there were now 2.3M active Starlink accounts, I'd expect them to say that.2.3M people could be anything from 1M active Starlink accounts up to perhaps 2M - very few Starlink accounts will have only one person consuming the data. I regard this post with considerable suspicion, but them I'm old & cynical
Great to see high-speed internet now available to all northern Canadians, right across Nunavut. Read the details: https://nunatsiaq.com/stories/article/northern-firm-gets-up-to-nearly-27m-to-speed-up-nunavuts-internet/ (image Josh u/DudeItsJag) @Starlink @ssicanada1
My twin sister lives in a remote area of Canada. The Internet connection used to be unreliable. She now has @Starlink to contact her family, emergency services, and FaceTime me. Feeling safe is not overrated.
Quote from: tweetGreat to see high-speed internet now available to all northern Canadians, right across Nunavut.
Great to see high-speed internet now available to all northern Canadians, right across Nunavut.
I can see there being 10,000 total internet subscribers. That’s still substantial.
Quote from: Robotbeat on 12/25/2023 05:59 pmI can see there being 10,000 total internet subscribers. That’s still substantial.The contention ratio will be nice and low, and the service quality likely stellar! This is after all an example if its target market!
With Starlink, users can engage in online gaming which historically wasn’t possible with satellite internet.A group of gamers in Brazil hosted a match enabled by Starlink on top of a mountain in Serra do Rola-Moca 🛰️🏔️🎮 →
The folks at @Starlink recently updated the map on their website (https://starlink.com/map) to also show performance data at sea. For comparison, I’ve attached our map displaying the average latency data for the Starlink Flat High Performance terminals sold by my team at @Elcome_Intl.This data is for the last five weeks. Lighter colors indicate lower latency with the scale (white to dark blue) being from 40-150ms of latency between the Starlink and the PoP (point of preference…where the customer’s traffic connects to the Internet).Next week we are delivering our 1,000th Starlink Flat High Performance kit…a significant milestone for us as that’s approximately the number of traditional maritime VSATs we installed over the past 20 years.In December, we have provided our Starlink maritime customers over 600TB of Mobile Priority data which they have consumed at an average aggregate bandwidth of 1.6 Gbps. The average daily traffic was 27GB per day, while the peak single day consumption by a vessel in December was 768GB.The average network availability was 99.4%, and the peak speeds achieved by any vessel was 361 Mbps download and 111 Mbps upload. Average latency was 77ms and average signal quality was 95%.Our forecast for 2024 is that we will deploy at least another 2,000 maritime Starlinks. On the land side we expect the numbers to be much higher. Our partnership with @SpaceX is stronger than ever and we are working closely to accelerate the deployment of #Starlink at sea.If you have any questions or comments about Starlink’s maritime service, feel free to ask!
