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I am a subscriber. And they lowered my price a few months ago. By something like 10%. I don’t remember seeing any WSJ headlines about that.

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I am a subscriber. They increased my price a few months ago by 10%. And now they raised it again.

Are you in a densely populated area by any chance? I’m just guessing, but perhaps they’re using price to level the field of distribution?

Not densely populated area per se (south of san jose), but with satellite communication it's very relative term.

I got email from starlink yesterday, they lower price by $20 for those that are in area with excess capacity and raise it by $10 for those in areas with limited capacity. I saw their availability map last week, pretty much entire west coast is on "waitlist". I guess it equivalent to "limited capacity"

Can't read behind the paywall, but it'd make sense if pricing was adjusted by the volume of local traffic. I have a remote property I inherited from my father in the mountains. I'd love to be able to set up a webcam with an internet connection to keep an eye on it. There is literally nothing for miles in any direction (off grid? more like off the map) so it'd make sense that the connection should be pretty cheap as it would not be crowding out others.

If it’s that remote they might actually have to pay YOU. :)

https://archive.is/i1GbX will get you to the article.

What matters more is what downlink ground station you're near. My ground station is almost 7 hours away by car, in a city of >700k people.

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