Re: [Starlink] Portability Now Available (fwd)

[Ulrich Speidel <u.speidel@auckland.ac.nz>]

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Cool. Very interesting! That's one pile of information all of a sudden. 
They could do that more often IMHO.

Nothing like official confirmation that the tropics are an almost 
Starlink-free zone, and that places reasonably away from the 53rd 
parallels are secondary service zones. They forgot their 50-odd 
terminals in Tonga (I heard yesterday about someone in the northern 
islands who brought a dishy from overseas and found it didn't work... 
obviously believed the headlines... sigh).

Also interesting that there seems to be, finally, some sort of 
disclosure on cell size. Someone will need to explain to me why there 
are waitlist areas in the Auckland area surrounded by full service. The 
areas concerned are rural, which you'd think they'd want to service with 
priority over our well-connected CBD... Too many subscribers there 
already, or not enough to warrant a spot beam? Similar soft spots near 
Sydney, holes in Foveaux Strait, the Hauraki Gulf, southeast of Murray 
Bridge in South Australia, southern Chile, ... What do I read into this? 
Two-fold: Where it's near 53 degrees, they're probably oversubscribed or 
lack terminal supply, or both. Where it's well away from 53 degrees, I'd 
guess they probably just lack satellite capacity full stop.

Ukraine is waitlisted...? But wait - didn't Starlink just take over the 
Internet there? Interesting also that one of the waitlist / no service 
areas in Germany is right where they had the floods & where Starlink got 
deployed very publicly with (I understand) some success. Did the locals 
hang on to the emergency dishys and does this now saturate the network 
there? And what did the Greeks do to be all waitlisted?

So what happens if you roam from a place with availability into a place 
with "waitlist" status? Anyone with a dishy up for a road trip with a 
story to tell?

$25/month sounds steep but is probably modest in comparison to the 
roaming charges that some cellular providers charge.

On 5/05/2022 7:00 pm, David Lang wrote:
> received this Wednesday evening.
> Makes sense,
>
> David Lang
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Portability Now Available
>
> Starlink is excited to announce Portability as an add-on feature for 
> all Starlink customers. Portability enables customers to temporarily 
> move their Starlink to new locations and receive high-speed internet 
> anywhere where Starlink provides active coverage within the same 
> continent. To see active coverage areas, please view the Starlink 
> Availability Map ( http://www.starlink.com/map 
> <http://www.starlink.com/map> 
> ).
>
> You can enable Portability for $25/month on your account page ( 
> https://starlink.com/account 
> <https://starlink.com/account> 
> ). Once enabled, Portability will take effect immediately, and you can 
> disable Portability from your account page at any time.
>
> To learn more about Starlink Portability, please read our FAQ page ( 
> http://www.starlink.com/faq 
> <http://www.starlink.com/faq> 
> ).
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