What's happening
In aboriginal November, Starlink said that it would get escaped of unlimited information and determination to a information headdress strategy for each customers starting successful December. It's present delaying that argumentation alteration until February.
Why it matters
It's not rather a vacation miracle, but it's bully quality for Starlink customers accustomed to unlimited data. This cardinal differentiator betwixt Elon Musk's work and its outer net competitors volition inactive spell away, but not rather arsenic suddenly.
It turns retired the Grinch didn't bargain each the goodies from Starlink customers this December. In November, Elon Musk's satellite net service revealed it would enact a information headdress of 1 terabyte per month for each customers successful the US and Canada starting sometime successful December. Now, that determination has been pushed backmost until February.
"To guarantee our lawsuit basal is not negatively impacted by a tiny fig of users consuming unusually precocious amounts of data, the Starlink squad is implementing a just usage argumentation for residential customers successful the US and Canada… opening February 2023," it present says connected the company's website.
This caller commencement day appears to beryllium the lone alteration from what Starlink announced successful November. Per the Starlink just usage policy, the monthly information headdress volition inactive beryllium 1TB, and immoderate customers who stroke past that bounds wrong their 30-day billing rhythm volition person their work deprioritized, resulting successful overmuch slower download speeds.
This quality comes connected the heels of Ookla's caller investigation showing that Starlink's show dipped for the 2nd consecutive 4th successful 2022. The speed-testing company's information revealed that Starlink's median download speeds successful the US were astatine 53 megabits per second, which fell from 63Mbps successful the 2nd quarter, and importantly beneath 100Mbps astatine the extremity of 2021.
Will the looming information headdress assistance stem the downturn successful download speeds? Time volition tell, but astatine slightest existent Starlink customers won't person to woody with specified a alteration successful the mediate of the hectic vacation season.
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