SpaceX Launches 10 Gbps Satellite Internet Service
The company launched a solution that allows it to become an Internet provider in remote regions, offering a local connection to a 10 Gbit/s channel. But the cost of such a tariff is very high.
To connect to the new Starlink service, you first need to purchase equipment for $1.25 million. In addition, the monthly subscription fee for this tariff is $75,000 per month.
SpaceX, which owns Starlink, won’t just send a satellite dish; This will help create a complex designed to receive broadband speeds of up to 10 Gbps from the company’s fleet of orbiting satellites.
“With Community Gateways, Starlink satellites can deliver fiber-like speeds and local providers distribute connectivity to homes, businesses and governments using last-mile fiber, fixed wireless and mobile wireless,” SpaceX says on its website.
Last September, the company built the first Community Gateway in Unalaska, located on the islands of Unalaska and Amaknak in the Aleutian archipelago off Alaska, through which local Internet service provider OptimERA provides broadband to most of its customer base.
“Our first Community Gateway on the remote island of Unalaska, Alaska, is capable of delivering 10 gigabits of symmetrical uplink and downlink capacity, enough to serve thousands of new customers while delivering more than 99% uptime,” the company said.
