Starlink in Philippines .. $599 unit & $99 monthly for 200 Mbps

Will the business plan works in the Philippines ? I pay 1500p monthly basis with Converge fiber and get 100 to 150 mbps…… more speed that i need actually

PalawOne said . . .
MANILA— Starlink, the satellite internet unit of Elon Musk’s SpaceX to enter the Philippine market this year.
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The purpose of Starlink is to make internet available to rural areas that do not internet because of lacking infrastructure. Of course the people who are driving their Prius, sipping Starbuck Coffee and texting on their I-Phone 15 will be the first to order.

5000 p monthly bill is expensive for regular people living in rural areas

No Filipinos would ever be able to afford the initial $600 USD deposit, not alone $100 USD a month. Most if not all new subscribers will be expats. I personally think it's all a cash grab by Elon...

He never thinks he makes enough $$$$ on his businesses.

5000 p monthly bill is expensive for regular people living in rural areas
-@Tdionnet

It is a resource. An option. People are not forced to use it and there is a Phils middle class who can afford it. Rather than criticize, appreciate it. There is no free lunch.

@Harbred6051 Enterprising folks could simply share the costs and usage.

I agree. I'm not criticizing it..just stating a fact that only the more affluent Filipinos such as those living in Cebu Manila Mikati n BGC may be able to afford it. But it is only one of many companies to get hi speed internet from...there's still PLDT & Concierge...

5000 p monthly bill is expensive for regular people living in rural areas
-@Tdionnet

The Big Picture

Millions in first world countries do not have internet service because the infrastructure is not available, the cost would be prohibitive in having the infrastructure for such few subscribers.

Starlink would be a worldwide internet & cell phone provider. With billions of customers worldwide the cost would come down and drive the major existing players out of business.

Think it as the Amazon of communications. The world is going to be Muskatized.

Cost affordability is a fact and not a critic….. local providers have also tremendously improved their services over the last 4 years in terms of coverage and speed. With a prepaid gigabites database for internet…. It costs 100p per day….

Thus, yes Starlink will be a plus service but not really for all masses which are already sharing internet load…

Cost affordability is a fact and not a critic….. local providers have also tremendously improved their services over the last 4 years in terms of coverage and speed. With a prepaid gigabites database for internet…. It costs 100p per day….
Thus, yes Starlink will be a plus service but not really for all masses which are already sharing internet load…
-@Tdionnet

There are areas in the world first world does that does not have local providers. The only internet available is satellite. Cost affordability will go down and speed will go up. In the future today's internet will look like 21K dial up of years ago.

My first modem was 4K and my computer was an 8088 with a lowly clock speed of 4+ mhz and a hard drive of 20 megabytes, my monitor was CGA. Man was I flying.

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Seems an excellent opportunity for the Philippines government to equip all of their 7k+ Philippine islands with a public Starlink base or two.

Look to legislate all Provinces and passenger aviation & shipping, emergency Starlink access.

So anywhere and anytime your Philippine tiny-island emergencies may take free incoming calls :-)

Happy trails

PalawOne

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I live in the province 5 or 6 hours north of Manila, if you have mobile phone coverage then you can get wireless internet, we pay 1099 per month (used to be 999) for unli globe at home. 6 to 8 workers here hook up to it on their phones and we never see a lag on our laptops or watching U tube.

Appreciate the technology that is obviously aimed for remote areas as sat internet is and has been for 30 plus years so nothing new but I would suggest here in PH that mobile towers are spread far and wide with most Filipinos not able to survive without a mobile phone and internet access, part of the culture here and as another member stated too expensive for many locals, even us, best to have unlimited smart or globe for US 20 bucks a month.

OMO.

Cheers, Steve.

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Think the big picture, not just yourself BP.

Google says internet penetration in the Philippines is currently 68% (2022) so many people are doing without.

For example, many people are without on my wife's family island chain. There are also numbers of storm damaged phone towers lying there never to be fixed.

So as mentioned above, apparently a third of all Pinoys are missing out.

Public Starlink technology in municipal halls and school libraries may be perfect.

From the Starlink website ..

@PalawOne Not sure what world you're living on. But the one I'm on, that VAST majority of those you speak of, the ones in the provinces can't afford onions. Let alone these massive prices from Elon. He says it's to link up those without. Talks about all the good it will do. But those folks are making 500p per day. Buying a couple hours of load is a luxury.

Larry, read carefully my friend, notice I'm talking about government provided free public Starlink services?

@Larry Fisher You don't know what future plans may be in the works for Starlink to provide free or reduced prices to the poor or what the government may do to subsidize them.

Since when a PH government give anything to poor masses?

Since when a PH government give anything to poor masses?
-@Tdionnet

A very cynical response. Do you know any poor people here?  Have you ever heard of Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) that gives regular cash assistance to the poor? Have you ever heard of free healthcare for the poor (Philhealth)? How about the money and food distributed during the pandemic, something Banko Sentro is still recovering from? I would refrain from labeling your host country as being selfish to it's own people. The fact is, the country doesn't have as much wealth to distribute as your 1st world government has but they try to do what they can afford.

Starlink might be a business opportunity for a Inernet cafe.

@danfinn

yes i work and run my own business here…. And the people i employ are from poor background… never given a chance to get a  decent house loan…… Thus i do the financing for them by advancing the cash…..

you seem to be a very sensitive 👨 as soon as someone doesn’t see the world as you do….!

been here long enough to know how the ball spin

@Tdionnet Oh, ok, you legally employ citizens here so I assume you know your obligations to employees relative to Pag Ibig (government sponsored home loans), PhilHeath contributions and of course SSS retirement. But you also say that your host country PH does nothing for the poor. Difficult for me to understand why you diss the PH.

@Harbred6051 The market for internet service providers is wide open! Why not offer an alternative for the poorer folks?

@Harbred6051 I don’t see it as a cash grab at all. He is an entrepreneur who has the financial ability  to do what he wants. Reliable internet is desperately needed in rural Philippines.

@clownbob77  exactly and then it is affordable!

@danfinn there are lots of jealous Musk haters out there. Some people can’t stand successful entrepreneurs. 

I'm being offered StarLink now....can anyone explain if there is a phone service that comes with it

I assume it will be like wifi-calling?

Ialso have 2 internet services for 500mbps each at $50USD each monthly

@attykroll It is Internet service only.  It can provide a path for VOIP phones (or Messenger or any other number of video/voice services) but doesn't provide a phone terminal to connect to a telephone.  In my case I use a POTS phone connected to an Obihai appliance to use Google Voice to the US.  Assuming the latency is as claimed, that should work fine.

We’re pretty far out in the boonies along the Zamboanga del Norte coast and PLDT recently ran fiber optic by our resort. We get 300mbps for $50 a month with zero installation fee. We have a pisowifi that always at least pays our WiFi bill sometimes doubles it and we only charge 5 piso per hour. The locals love it. We’ve had parties with as many as 150 people and I’m sure there is more than 25 people using it at any one time. And different than the Warzone WiFi we used to get it’s never out during brownouts.

I just don’t see $99 for 200mbps being competitive. A smart money guy like Musk should know that.

our other home in the mountains (hills really) has 100mbps and they strung the cable from tree to tree. Always nervous about it during a storm.