What Starlink plan charges for overusage? I thought it was all prioritization, lower priority plans could be slowed down, but monthly price stays the same?
From: AF <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Robert Sent: Friday, August 15, 2025 10:33 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] T-Mobile 5G and Fiber Home Internet SpaceX has reached a limit somewhere.. They are resorting to pricing games and now putting in caps that they never had before... Either that or the cell phone greed gene is kicking in. I wonder if they recently hired any cell phone execs that brought the greed with them. We are seeing ex customers come crawling back after getting $600 overage bills... On 8/15/25 7:07 AM, Josh Luthman wrote: But they got $3M to do nothing in VA. $76M in TN https://broadbandbreakfast.com/amazon-and-spacex-undercut-competition-in-tennessee-bead-bidding/ On Fri, Aug 15, 2025 at 9:57 AM Ken Hohhof <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/starlink-tries-to-block-virginias-plan-to-bring-fiber-internet-to-residents/ From: AF <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > On Behalf Of Josh Luthman Sent: Friday, August 15, 2025 8:53 AM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] T-Mobile 5G and Fiber Home Internet The real winner is SpaceX. 0 additional work for big fat checks. On Thu, Aug 14, 2025 at 5:05 PM Mike Hammett <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: T-Mobile and\or their affiliates won big in Louisiana. Well, still subject to official award. -- Mike Hammett ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chuck" <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2025 3:54:22 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] T-Mobile 5G and Fiber Home Internet Who has been winning BEAD? Sent from my iPhone > On Aug 14, 2025, at 2:27 PM, Mike Hammett <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: > > And Lumos. > And US Internet. > And they've been winning BEAD money. > And using SiFi. > And... > > > > > -- > Mike Hammett > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Josh Luthman" <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > > To: "AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > > Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2025 11:35:57 AM > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] T-Mobile 5G and Fiber Home Internet > > > > Tmobile owns Metronet now. So they'll check the location for Metronet fiber. > That's the best lifespan of customer. If they can't get it with fiber, then > get cheap internet with 5G. > > Yes, Tmobile sold all of their wireline to Cogent and then bought Metronet > fiber. > > > On Thu, Aug 14, 2025 at 11:45 AM Ken Hohhof < [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > > > > Maybe I’m reading too much into this, but T-Mobile seems to be treating FWA > and fiber as two flavors of the same service. > > > > This might just let them use the same tools for qualification, signup, etc. > Or it might mean they view FWA as a precursor to fiber rollout. Sign up home > Internet customers using 5G, then where you have concentrations of customers, > roll out fiber? That way you avoid running out of celltower capacity, and you > capture the customers and keep them away from competitors. > > > > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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