Well as the title states, does anyone know what CenturyLink plans to do when Starlink is ready to start taking subscribers to their Light Speed Internet Services?
Starlink will have three layers of Sats, and one of those layers will be so shallow at 340km that the tier estimation will be 10 ms latency and at least Fiber bandwidth to start, this layer is specifically targeting Fiber like gaming and banking apps, and any other applications that require low latency. The middle layer will have a shallow altitude of 550km and target normal web browsing services and have a latency in the 25ms range (what I have now). The top layer of Sats will have an altitude of 1150km and target 4K streaming with a latency in the range of 35ms or slightly higher. The cost will be a $200 equipment purchase, and a small flat disk that is small enough to embed into car roofs etc, and of course your home. They said its the size of a medium to small pizza. Monthly costs is not yet known, but when asked Starlink reps said they plan to beat all their competitions pricing structures. A.k.a cheap Fiber like internet. It's a $10 Billion dollar endeavor so they must start out with very reasonable pricing in order to gain adoption.
My current max service I can get from CL is 25ms latency and 25 Mbps downloads, up is only 3.3. Service tier is 40/5 but the techs can't seem to improve it any further. I am about 1700 feet from the closest CL node, or where the CL techs connect us to their services.
Any ideas if CenturyLink plans to launch some new fancy services that will compete, or are they just going to be losing millions of possible subscribers without a fight? I'm truly curious because if Starlink is even remotely close to the Monthly costs we will be saying goodbye to CL in a snap.
So, anybody have any ideas what so ever on what CenturyLink is planning to try and compete with? Surely they have plans? Right?
Thanks for your input and please be fair and nice with your replies. This family of 6 wants and needs hundreds of megabytes a second, at minimum and I just don't see CL giving us that any time soon.
Best Regards
Rod
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