FCC Chair Rosenworcel Proposes to Investigate Impact of Data Caps
Michael Thomas
mike at mtcc.com
Fri Jun 16 20:57:04 UTC 2023
On 6/16/23 1:36 PM, Josh Luthman wrote:
> Not everyone can afford $1000 to start up Starlink and then pay $130+
> per month. That may be an option for some, but certainly not the
> majority.
>
> If 100% of a town was covered by a single company with data caps,
> those that are crying from hitting 1.2 TB/month will not be enough for
> a competitor to come in and build on top. A TB/mo now is extremely
> high - In May 2023 we had 4 customers that exceeded that (all 4 of
> these customers mentioned are subscribed to <25 mbps plans; we offer
> gig ftth).
I get the impression that they are still in a beta/early adopter
situation so unaffordability might be feature not a bug to them to keep
the system from a success disaster. At least for now. I get the
impression that some/a lot of this is to bring the internet to the rest
of the world as one of their goals.
I do wonder how they are numbering them though. Are the they using the
same scheme that the mobile providers are using with ipv6? hmm.
Mike
>
> On Fri, Jun 16, 2023 at 4:22 PM Mark Tinka <mark at tinka.africa> wrote:
>
>
>
> On 6/16/23 22:16, Michael Thomas wrote:
>
> > Won't Starlink and other LEO configurations be that backstop sooner
> > rather than later? I don't know if they have caps as well, but
> even if
> > they do they could compete with their caps.
>
> Maybe. I really haven't paid any attention to Starlink, although
> there
> are credible reports of folk testing it here in South Africa's urban
> centres.
>
> I have not heard of any mention of Starlink having caps as part of
> their
> service. Having said that, for services like this, things change
> as the
> number of customers using them rises.
>
> Mark.
>
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