How many customers do they have now? Last I heard was about 1.5 million worldwide.
Nearly 300 cruise ships are now set to use Starlink to keep their passengers and crews connected with high-speed internet while on rivers and at sea 🛰️🛳️
Starlink is now available in Malaysia, marking the 60th country around the world where Starlink can provide high-speed internet connectivity → starlink.com/map 🛰️🇲🇾
Starlink is rugged enough to withstand extreme cold, heat, hail, sleet, heavy rain, and gale force windsTBD on volcanoes 🛰️🌋🔥
Capturing images and footage at the eruption site in Iceland. Backing up online and sharing via @Starlink. Most incredible thing I’ve ever experienced..#volcano #eruption #lava #iceland #activevolcano
Feature-length article in the New York Times about Starlink. Main theme is about how no government has control of Starlink.With Starlink, Elon Musk’s Satellite Dominance Is Raising Global AlarmsThe billionaire’s influence on satellite internet technology has increasingly worried militaries and political leaders in Ukraine and beyond.
Starlink feels kinda like magic. Being in the middle of nowhere and then getting all the info in the world (plus cooking shows) in about three minutes is nuts
It even works in Antarctica. Quite well, actually, since demand there is low.
The C5I team already installed Starlink on 17 cutters and targets all major cutters (WMSL, WMEC, Polars) for completion by the end of this calendar year (CY) WLB (225s) and FRC (154s) are targeted during CY24, along with the 17 WPBs (87s) that have installed legacy commercial satellite communications.
The Coast Guard is investing in underway connectivity ... and it’s paying off!QuoteThe C5I team already installed Starlink on 17 cutters and targets all major cutters (WMSL, WMEC, Polars) for completion by the end of this calendar year (CY) WLB (225s) and FRC (154s) are targeted during CY24, along with the 17 WPBs (87s) that have installed legacy commercial satellite communications.
Capt. Jessica Rozzi-Ochs says, “Starlink has seamless transition from satellite to satellite, unlike the legacy system, which drops service while it looks for and tracks a new satellite. This was particularly impressive when we experienced heavy weather (20+ foot seas, hard rain, 40-50 knots of wind) and Starlink didn’t go down once.”
When Starlink systems first began arriving in the Bethel region late last year, cargo planes delivered hundreds at a time, residents said.John Wallace, a tech consultant in the region, said he stood in line at the airport for his system.“It was craziness,” he said. “People were going out of it like it was a doughnut shop.”
The Prime Minister has approved and appreciated our plan for the Ministry of IT and Telecom:1. Enhance IT exports by institutionalising dollar retention accounts, IT corporate debit cards to enable easy flow of money in and out of retention accounts, streamlining tax issues and training 200,000 IT professionals to add $5 Billion to IT exporters. 2. Bring PayPal and Stripe to Pakistan and establish co-working spaces for 500,000 freelancers to increase their potential to additional $3 Biliion per year3 Launch Starlink in Pakistan to improve connectivity throughout the country. 4. Launch government-backed Pakistan Venture Capital Fund to attract top-tier international VCs to Pakistan. Enable $1 Billion VC investment in startups. 5. Enable active spectrum sharing, forward-looking taxation policies, regulations and incentives for the telecom industry to prepare for the upcoming 5G auction within 10 months. 6. Incentives for local manufacturing and export of smart phones in Pakistan, as well as smartphone financing platform (so that people can easily get phones on monthly instalments) to enhance local demand. Excited to take this agenda forward on full speed …
SES and Starlink are teaming up.The European satellite operator and SpaceX announce a combined service for the cruise market, and SES CEO Ruy Pinto told me at #WSBW there are other opportunities to bring the unified offering:
Pinto: “There is unmet demand that neither of us by ourselves can provide to certain cruise customers,” so it’s “a win-win solution” to provide a service that leverages GEO, MEO, and LEO together.SpaceX VP of Starlink Business Operations Chad Gibbs: “We are excited to collaborate with SES on a joint solution that combines the reach and capacity of both satellite constellations to offer a solution unlike any other in the market.”Pinto: “There is trust between the two companies, and there is a common desire to benefit the customer and, quite frankly, make sure that both technologies are available and not, quite frankly, killing each other needlessly.”
SpaceX’s Starlink partners with European satellite giant SES for combined cruise market servicePUBLISHED WED, SEP 13 20232:50 AM EDTMichael Sheetz@IN/MICHAELJSHEETZ@THESHEETZTWEETZKEY POINTSEuropean satellite operator SES is teaming up with SpaceX’s Starlink to offer a combined service to cruise operators.SES will manage the joint offering, called “SES Cruise mPOWERED + Starlink,” as a service that it says will provide high-speed, reliable internet service to cruise ships.“There is unmet demand that neither of us by ourselves can provide to certain cruise customers,” SES CEO Ruy Pinto told CNBC.
📰#SESNews: We are excited to announce an industry-first end-to-end #LEO and #MEO connectivity solution with Starlink for the cruise industry, enabling the best guest and crew connectivity experience regardless of location.Read more about how we are jointly bringing standardised throughput and enhanced global connectivity in the release here:
SES Introduces Cruise Industry’s First Integrated MEO-LEO Service with StarlinkPress Release 13 Sep 2023 2 min readIndustry’s first end-to-end connectivity solution delivering bandwidth capacity of up to 3 Gbps per ship, enabling a unique guest and crew connectivity experience.Luxembourg, 13 September 2023 – For the first time ever, cruise operators can now depend on a single managed solution to reap the benefits of low-latency, high-throughput satellite connectivity services that are enabled by integrating Starlink’s low-earth orbit (LEO) and SES’s medium earth orbit (MEO) services, both companies announced today. The joint offering – SES Cruise mPOWERED + Starlink – seamlessly integrated, sold and delivered by SES – will combine the best of both MEO and LEO orbits to provide high-speed and secure connectivity 24/7 to cruise ships and their guests, regardless of their route and location. Cruise operators will be able to enjoy SES's new offering that combines the truly global, high-throughput service of Starlink’s LEO system with SES’s unmatched performance MEO constellation to deliver a unique guest and crew experience by expanding existing capacity and reach. The solutions are available in either Premium tier (3Gbps/ship) – for the leading ships who wish to deliver the highest throughput in the industry or Pro tier (1.5Gbps/ship) – for the operators who wish to manage user experience by matching the right application to the right orbit. As a managed service provider that pioneered multi-orbit geostationary (GEO) and MEO-enabled networks and delivered connectivity services directly to cruise operators for the last 10 years, SES’s partnership with SpaceX’s Starlink to add LEO-based service into its cruise offering, demonstrates a joint commitment to delivering the best customer experience to cruise operators and guests. Investment in the cruise experience has reached new heights since the COVID-19 pandemic. Cruise operators are pushing technological and innovative boundaries, many of which are reliant on always-on, high-performance connectivity. This need is compounded by the growing expectations of cruise passengers and stakeholders alike to address the sector’s carbon emissions and comply with new maritime regulations, including CII and EEXI.“At SES, we strive to provide a world-class connectivity experience for our cruise customers and deliver the same level of service they would enjoy on land,” said John-Paul Hemingway, Chief Strategy Officer at SES. “By being the only one in the cruise industry to expand our unique multi-orbit GEO and MEO network to utilise LEO, we believe it opens new opportunities for us to meet the needs of cruise guests and crew members, and the operational requirements of cruise operators to accelerate their digital transformations – wherever they may be.” “We are excited to collaborate with SES on a joint solution that combines the reach and capacity of both satellite constellations to offer a solution unlike any other in the market,” said Chad Gibbs, SpaceX’s Vice President of Starlink Business Operations.Available Q4 2023, SES Cruise mPOWERED + Starlink will fulfill the growing demands of cruise lines to deliver a superior guest experience, optimise smart ship operations, and attract and retain the best crew. With its fully managed end-to-end, best-in-industry bandwidth and low-latency performance, the solution will set an entirely new standard for ship connectivity worldwide and minimise upfront capital costs and ongoing operational expenditure.Learn more about SES Cruise mPOWERED + Starlink packages
I see a lot of sales cliches. Did I miss exactly what SES supplies that Starlink doesn't?
Quote from: Nomadd on 09/13/2023 09:58 am I see a lot of sales cliches. Did I miss exactly what SES supplies that Starlink doesn't?Higher latency?
