{"id":110749,"date":"2020-08-01T21:42:43","date_gmt":"2020-08-02T04:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/spacex-says-starlink-internet-has-extraordinary-demand-with-nearly-700000-interested-in-service"},"modified":"2020-08-01T21:42:43","modified_gmt":"2020-08-02T04:42:43","slug":"spacex-says-starlink-internet-has-extraordinary-demand-with-nearly-700000-interested-in-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/spacex-says-starlink-internet-has-extraordinary-demand-with-nearly-700000-interested-in-service","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX says Starlink internet has \u2018extraordinary demand,\u2019 with nearly 700,000 interested in service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacex-says-starlink-internet-has-extraordinary-demand-with-nearly-700000-interested-in-service2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SpaceX said Starlink, its nascent satellite internet service, has already seen \u201cextraordinary demand\u201d from potential customers, with \u201cnearly 700,000 individuals\u201d across the United States indicating they are interested in the company\u2019s coming service.<\/p>\n<p>Due to the greater-than-expected interest, SpaceX filed a request with the Federal Communications Commission on Friday \u2014 asking to increase the number of authorized user terminals to 5 million from 1 million. User terminals are the devices consumers would use to connect to the company\u2019s satellite internet network.<\/p>\n<p>The request comes about a month and a half after SpaceX updated its Starlink website to allow potential customers to \u201cget updates on Starlink news and service availability in your area.\u201d Registering one\u2019s interest in Starlink service meant simply submitting an email address and postal address, with no fee required to receive updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX said Starlink, its nascent satellite internet service, has already seen \u201cextraordinary demand\u201d from potential customers, with \u201cnearly 700,000 individuals\u201d across the United States indicating they are interested in the company\u2019s coming service. Due to the greater-than-expected interest, SpaceX filed a request with the Federal Communications Commission on Friday \u2014 asking to increase the number [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}