On the last day of 2024, SpaceX announced in a blog on X that its Starlink satellite computer company has more than 4.6 million people worldwide.
Starlink claimed in a document filed with the Federal Communications Commission in August 2024 that its US subscriber base had increased by about 1.4 million since its launch in 2021. That accounts for about 1 % of all internet connections in the nation, but it has been a blessing for remote persons.  ,
” People buy a house out here and they assume that there’s online, and then they find out there’s not”, Edwin Walker, a resigned electrical engineer in Chattaroy, Washington, told CNET. ” There’s absolutely a few hundred people near to us who have Starlink”.
2024 was a time of rapid development for the telescope online company. It had worldwide at the beginning of the year and had 4.6 million at the end.  ,
In November, Starlink started putting customers on a list in US cities like Seattle, Portland, Sacramento, San Diego and Austin. It also added a one-time” congestion price” of$ 100 for consumers in high-usage areas.
Starlink’s ability to meet growing company demand has suss out in some circles. The definition of bandwidth is 20 Mbps upload and 100 megabits per second access. That’s a cafe Starlink has not reached in the United States.  ,
The in 2023 found that Starlink people in the US receive 65/10Mbps on average, with 58 seconds of overhead. ( Disclosure: Ookla is owned by the same parent company as CNET, Ziff Davis. )  ,
The business hasn’t ever exceeded the FCC’s standard in its three years of collecting acceleration test data for Starlink. The closest it got was the last quarter of 2021 when it hit 105/12Mbps.  ,
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In 2022, Starlink was denied nearly$ 900 million in broadband grants through the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund ( RDOF ) because it couldn’t meet the FCC’s speed requirements. In January of this year, Elon Musk stated on X that Starlink’s claim that it had failed to reach these velocity was “utterly fake” and that” Spacex exceeds that right now.”
Brendan Carr, the recent FCC chair, stated in October that he thought it would be fair to reinstate Starlink’s broadband program despite the fact that it was unlikely the commission could review the RDOF subsidies.
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