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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.
This lowers the price of a monthly subscription for every user and the initial hardware setup cost as well.
SpaceX has since removed the details, and the page leads to a 404 error, but PC Mag was able to catch the earlier version. There's also a dedicated Community page on the Starlink site, but it's not live yet. According to that page, a Community plan pass will cost $60 a month ($20 less than the $80-a-month Residential Lite plan and half the price of the $120-a-month standard Residential plan).
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Starlink didn't offer details about how many people could share a pass, but the support page had a section called "Pass history" that holds up to 10 rows. It's possible the pass could be shared with up to 10 people.
The company hasn't officially commented on the program. If it does debut, it would be a significant step toward offering affordable internet to areas where connections are either unavailable or expensive.
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