![]() Some of the average speeds are much faster than U.S. The Ookla article also shows the Starlink average speeds around the globe. Each state will have to decide if grants can be awarded for satellite broadband in such cases, and it seems likely that some states will allow this. While satellite technology is not deemed reliable enough to be used for grant awards directly, the NTIA has also opened the door to using alternate technologies like satellite and fixed wireless using unlicensed spectrum in areas where landline technologies are too costly. The BEAD grant rules also open the door for Starlink and other satellite providers to some extent. The RDOF awards require any winning ISP to serve everybody, and there is still a big question about the kinds of speeds that can be delivered for a geographic area that has a lot of subscribers. There is a lot of speculation that Starlink is limiting the number of subscribers in a given geographic area in order to not dilute speed and performance. This doesn’t bode well for the Starlink RDOF awards areas of heavy woods and hills like the awards in western North Carolina. I’ve talked to a number of Starlink customers and what they’ve told me is that Starlink needs a view of the ‘whole sky’ from horizon to horizon to operate optimally, and many homes don’t have the needed view. There are some customers seeing speeds of over 150 Mbps while others are seeing only 50 Mbps or even less. While these speeds are now approaching the 100 Mbps speed promised by Starlink in its RDOF bids, it’s worth noting that the 90 Mbps number is an average. The first is if these speeds are good enough to qualify Starlink to be awarded the RDOF awards that have now been pending from the FCC for over a year and a half. These speed tests raise a few interesting questions. This fast growth makes me wonder when Starlink will stop calling the business a beta test. The company reported having 145,000 customers at the start of the year and recently announced it is up to 400,000 customers worldwide. Starlink subscriptions are climbing quickly. It seems likely that overall bandwidth capacity and speeds are increasing due to the continually growing size of the Starlink satellite constellation-now over 2,500. ![]() #Starlink bandwidth downloadIt’s likely that some of this change is intentional since ISPs have a choice for the amount of bandwidth to allocate to download versus upload. But during that same timeframe, upload speeds got worse, dropping from an average of 16.29 Mbps in 1Q 2021 to 10.70 Mbps in 1Q 2022. average download speeds on Starlink have improved over the last year, from an average of 65.72 Mbps in 1Q 2021 to 90.55 Mbps in 1Q 2022. We got a recent analysis of Starlink broadband speeds from Ookla, which gathers huge numbers of speed tests from across the country. SpaceX Starlink user terminal/satellite dish. ![]()
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