{"id":115156,"date":"2020-10-27T10:24:12","date_gmt":"2020-10-27T17:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/spacex-prices-starlink-satellite-internet-service-at-99-per-month-according-to-e-mail"},"modified":"2020-10-27T10:24:12","modified_gmt":"2020-10-27T17:24:12","slug":"spacex-prices-starlink-satellite-internet-service-at-99-per-month-according-to-e-mail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/spacex-prices-starlink-satellite-internet-service-at-99-per-month-according-to-e-mail","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX prices Starlink satellite internet service at $99 per month, according to e-mail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacex-prices-starlink-satellite-internet-service-at-99-per-month-according-to-e-mail.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SpaceX is expanding the beta test of its Starlink satellite internet service, reaching out via email on Monday to people who expressed interest in signing up for the service.<\/p>\n<p>Called the \u201cBetter Than Nothing Beta\u201d test, according to multiple screenshots of the email seen by CNBC, initial Starlink service is priced at $99 a month \u2013 plus a $499 upfront cost to order the Starlink Kit. That kit includes a user terminal to connect to the satellites, a mounting tripod and a wifi router. There is also now a Starlink app listed by SpaceX on the <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.starlink.mobile\" target=\"_blank\">Google Play<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/starlink\/id1537177988\" target=\"_blank\">Apple iOS<\/a> app stores.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs you can tell from the title, we are trying to lower your initial expectations,\u201d the emails said, signed Starlink Team. \u201cExpect to see data speeds vary from 50Mb\/s to 150Mb\/s and latency from 20ms to 40ms over the next several months as we enhance the Starlink system. There will also be brief periods of no connectivity at all.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX is expanding the beta test of its Starlink satellite internet service, reaching out via email on Monday to people who expressed interest in signing up for the service. Called the \u201cBetter Than Nothing Beta\u201d test, according to multiple screenshots of the email seen by CNBC, initial Starlink service is priced at $99 a month [\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-115156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115156","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=115156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}