You May Soon Get Starlink Internet For A Much Lower 'community' Price - Here's How

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ZDNET's takeaways

• SpaceX shares specifications astir "Starlink Community," a dish-sharing programme that lowers monthly subscription costs.
• A support page shows a value of $60 a period for nan service.
• Currently, each Starlink subscriber needs their ain equipment.

You mightiness soon person an action to get Starlink net astatine a overmuch much affordable price.

There hasn't been a awesome announcement, but SpaceX has softly dropped specifications astir a caller programme that lets you stock a azygous Starlink crockery pinch different group to trim costs.

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Earlier today, a support page for authorized resellers that described "Starlink Community" was live. "Starlink is launching a caller affordable measurement to present high-speed internet," nan station reads, "one Starlink, aggregate subscribers -- each pinch their ain Starlink relationship and seamless experience."

At present, each Starlink subscriber needs their ain dish. A relationship tin beryllium shared crossed aggregate devices successful nan home, but not crossed aggregate households. The Community programme appears to fto aggregate users crossed different routers link to nan aforesaid crockery -- deliberation flat aliases condo complexes. 

This lowers nan value of a monthly subscription for each personification and nan first hardware setup costs arsenic well.

SpaceX has since removed nan details, and nan page leads to a 404 error, but PC Mag was able to drawback nan earlier version. There's also a dedicated Community page connected nan Starlink site, but it's not unrecorded yet. According to that page, a Community scheme walk will costs $60 a period ($20 little than nan $80-a-month Residential Lite scheme and half nan value of nan $120-a-month modular Residential plan).

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Starlink didn't connection specifications astir really galore group could stock a pass, but nan support page had a conception called "Pass history" that holds up to 10 rows. It's imaginable nan walk could beryllium shared pinch up to 10 people. 

The institution hasn't officially commented connected nan program. If it does debut, it would beryllium a important measurement toward offering affordable internet to areas wherever connections are either unavailable aliases expensive.

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