latest
Starlink's $200 global roaming plan gains wider release
Starlink is rolling out its global roaming plan to more people. The service won't come cheap, costing $200 per month.
Just last month, Starlink customers started receiving invitations to a new global roaming plan. Today, the company is going wide with its release, sharing that new and current Starlink customers can now sign up for the global roaming plan that will cost $200 per month. In addition to the global plan, the company is rebranding its Starlink RV service to Starlink Roam, with the new regional roaming plan costing a $150 per month.
The Need for Better Internet on Our Phones
Read about the consequences of the greed of american carriers, and how they bring down the service and technology of all americans.
Mobile internet is an essential part of smartphones nowadays… well, for 75% of us. Despite living in a place where my fastest network reaches 5 megabit download speeds, on very intermittent 3G, it certainly is an essential part for my usage, to the point where even with my third-world network, I simply cannot fathom how there’s still a fourth of users who aren’t on data plans. It’d be interesting to see if that subset of smartphone users shares a large chunk with the subset of budget or low-range smartphones, which admittedly see little gain from having data plans - particularly in third world countries with slow 2G and 3G networks. But with apps such as Whatsapp dominating the Latin American markets (my experience here closely reflects this statement), a lot of budget users still have data plans, even the 20 MB data capped package plans (yes, that’s a thing here) are widely adopted by the poorest of smartphone users.
