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ZDNET's takeaways
SpaceX shares details about "Starlink Community," a dish-sharing program that lowers monthly subscription costs.
A support page shows a price of $60 a month for the service.
Currently, every Starlink subscriber needs their own equipment.
You might soon have an option to get Starlink internet at a much more affordable price.
There hasn't been a major announcement, but SpaceX has quietly dropped details about a new program that lets you share a single Starlink dish with other people to cut costs.
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Earlier today, a support page for authorized resellers that described "Starlink Community" was live. "Starlink is launching a new affordable way to deliver high-speed internet," the post reads, "one Starlink, multiple subscribers -- each with their own Starlink account and seamless experience."
At present, every Starlink subscriber needs their own dish. A connection can be shared across multiple devices in the home, but not across multiple households. The Community program appears to let multiple users across different routers connect to the same dish -- think apartment or condo complexes.
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