Same here. Just bought it for next summer¡¯s cruise to Newfoundland. I thought Amazon was planning on a competing network of LEO satellites. When there¡¯s a reasonable alternative I will be ditching it along with any other Muskie products.
Len Bertaux
Walkabout S38mkii
Prides Crossing MA
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On Feb 24, 2025, at 11:35?PM, Dan Grossman via groups.io <ldg004@...> wrote:
?There aren¡¯t a lot of alternatives for satellite broadband ¡ª yet. Today, AT&T and Verizon announced that their respective partnership with AST Spacemobile hit a milestone with first direct-to-mobile calls. It is going to be a while until AST has enough satellites on orbit to allow them to offer commercial service. It also isn¡¯t clear what kinds of speeds can be achieved with satellite-to-5G mobile phone broadband. I don¡¯t know off the top of my head what else AST is planning to offer (and I¡¯m too lazy to look into it right now). Amazon is putting up their own Kuiper constellation, and there are a few others that may or may not launch.
Short version: not in time for this summer¡¯s cruise. If you want just text and voice with no Internet, you can spend on Iridium or GlobalStar.
My advice: don¡¯t bite off your nose to spite your face. Karma will get Musk without your help.
I have to look into low earth orbit satellites anyway, and will get back to you if I come up with anything else.
On Feb 24, 2025, at 19:41, Michael Grishman via groups.io <mgrishman@...> wrote:
?We currently have Starlink aboard and mostly use it during our annual one month cruise along the Maine coast where we get into some remote areas and cannot use our phones as a hot spot. We would prefer not
to support Starlink any longer and am wondering if anyone has had any experiences good or bad with any of the other satellite internet providers. We would prefer not have a long contract so that we can it put it on hold when we do not need it.
Thanks in advance,
Michael
Wind Walker
S402-097
Len Bertaux