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.

received this Wednesday evening.
Makes sense,

David Lang

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