Elon's Starlink Internet Service
The most recent info from the beta testers for the Starlink service. Hardware costs to be a beta tester $499. Monthly service $99/month. No information thus far on end user experience or expectatio...
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Bill.Satellite wrote:
Point of interest, however, is that if the service was $99/month and you still had to pay for a streaming service to watch TV you would still be better off with DISH or DirecTV plus a stand alone internet service.
YES.
That $99 is only the BEGINNING of the charges that it WILL cost you to stream your favorite channels.
As it is right now, to get some shows you have to pay Amazon for "Prime" at $100 per yr..
You want Disney? Yep, you WILL pay for their streaming services $10 per month?
Then you have Hulu, HBO, Netflix and so on.. Many of these services have specific programming not available to other services so you are forced to subscribe to them all.. Then you have bunches of bills to pay..
At least with Direct and Dish, you have one bill and then for Internet you have only one bill for that.. and by the way, Dish and Direct GIVE you additional channels/choices when you connect the receiver to the Internet at no extra charge depending on what your package includes..
$5 here, $10 there it all adds up, add up all of those pay streaming services and it will be more than paying Dish or Direct..
