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Don Pisto
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discounted Starlink?
spotted this on one of those FB pages......
if its true sounds good to me
[Edited on 8-26-2022 by Don Pisto]
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mtgoat666
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Quote: Originally posted by lencho  |
Interesting social concept (pricing relative to local purchasing power).
Wonder how many of the clients in Mexico are actually locals (vs foreigners with first-world incomes)? |
If the ad is in English with prices in Mexican currency, then is probably a marketing ploy to get gringos.
Most Mexicans can’t afford starlink,… do they still charge $600 usd for the hardware? Yikes!
Woke!
“...ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country.” “My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America
will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.”
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Our bill hasn’t gone down yet.
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Don Pisto
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https://businessinsider.mx/elon-musk-starlink-internet-slash...
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El Jefe
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I got the email yesterday. My Starlink in Mexico monthly bill will be cut in half from 2,200 to 1,100 pesos. Pretty cool. The dish is at the house in
the box and we are away so we are not using it yet, although we are paying the monthly bill.
This puts Starlink on par cost wise with the land based internet tower system available in our area on the near east cape. I decided to get Starlink
so that we would have an alternative service provider for our little off grid community during outages from storms etc. I figure the neighbors will
come over to my house and sit on the porch so they can get a signal out to loved ones.
No b-tchin\' in the Baja.
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maspacificoII
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We are in a similar situation. Living away from town we cannot have it shipped directly to us. How did you have it shipped down? Did they attempt
to charge duty when it was picked up?
Thank you
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mjs
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You can have it shipped to a friend.
You should not be charged duty. DHL tried to charge me duty on my original order shipped from Long Beach, Ca( which I refused) but I believe starlink
is shipping from a Mexico address now.
FYI My billing amount is now showing as1100 pesos.
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Don Pisto
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my neighbor lady is up visiting in Redding and is sold on their starlink and wants to give it a go down in BC....is there an issue buying it up there
and bringing it down, as far as the shipping address goes?
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Many folks living in Baja order Starlink from their address in the US then move the Starlink stuff around where the travel including to Baja.
If you only live in Baja have have Starlink ship to your Baja Address. Best option to get the reduced monthly charge.
Don't know about duty.
No duty for movement back and forth as the Mexican and US border folks do not care.
Caveat - to use Starlink in both your US place and your BC place you need to choose the RV or portability option. Not the fixed place option. Billing
is all online.
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mjs
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Unless starlink has changed its policy you cannot move your account location from a USA address to a MX service address. Nor can an rv account remain
in MX for more than 2 months.
After my debacle with DHL trying to charge $400 duty which ended with me refusing delivery and canceling my order I reordered to a USA address. No
problem with delivery and dish worked fine at my Baja house. But eventually starlink told me I had to sign up for the rv plan or lose service. I
could not move my service address to MX. But I could cancel my subscription and sell the equipment to another person who happened to live in MX. That
person had to set up their own starlink account and then they could aquire my equipment and activate it on their account.
Maybe the policy has changed and is different now. YMMV.
Ps, I had to give starlink a MX shipping address even though I have no way to get packages at my place.
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Don Pisto
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thanks for replies, looks like starlink is also discounting the cost of gear, maybe someone can paste this, im out of free stories for the month.
https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/starlink-internet-cuts-pric...
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Villas
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My next invoice is dated manana and is the same price.
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Speeds
What kind of upload and download speeds are people getting with starling in BCS?
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HeyMulegeScott
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Starlink, the satellite internet company owned by the world’s richest person, Elon Musk, has slashed its monthly service fee by over 50%.
As of Wednesday, Starlink’s customers in Mexico pay 1,100 pesos per month (US $55), a 52% decrease compared to the former fee of 2,299 pesos.
Starlink has also reduced the price of its hardware kit, which includes an antenna, to 8,300 pesos (US $414) from 9,896 pesos, a 16% drop.
The hardware kit is now shipped free of charge whereas the previous cost was 1,420 pesos (about US $70). In addition to Mexico, the company lowered
its prices in many other countries where it offers satellite internet service.
“The price reduction factors in your local market conditions and is meant to reflect parity in purchasing power across our customers,” Starlink
said in an email to customers.
Federal telecommunications authorities granted Musk’s company permission to operate in Mexico for 10 years in June 2021.
On its website, Starlink says it offers “high-speed, low-latency broadband internet in remote and rural locations across the globe.”
Its service is “made possible via the world’s largest constellation of highly advanced satellites operating in a low orbit around the earth.”
Among the satellite internet services that compete with Starlink in Mexico are Viasat and HughesNet. An analysis conducted late last year – before
Starlink was offering its service here – found that Viasat provided Mexico’s fastest satellite internet service for downloads, but speeds were
well below the fixed broadband median.
Some Starlink customers in Mexico have reported speeds of 200 Mbps or more with latency between 70 and 100 milliseconds. The latter is far lower than
that of other satellite internet service providers.
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Don Pisto
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| Quote: Originally posted by HeyMulegeScott |
Starlink, the satellite internet company owned by the world’s richest person, Elon Musk, has slashed its monthly service fee by over 50%.
As of Wednesday, Starlink’s customers in Mexico pay 1,100 pesos per month (US $55), a 52% decrease compared to the former fee of 2,299 pesos.
Starlink has also reduced the price of its hardware kit, which includes an antenna, to 8,300 pesos (US $414) from 9,896 pesos, a 16% drop.
The hardware kit is now shipped free of charge whereas the previous cost was 1,420 pesos (about US $70). In addition to Mexico, the company lowered
its prices in many other countries where it offers satellite internet service.
“The price reduction factors in your local market conditions and is meant to reflect parity in purchasing power across our customers,” Starlink
said in an email to customers.
Federal telecommunications authorities granted Musk’s company permission to operate in Mexico for 10 years in June 2021.
On its website, Starlink says it offers “high-speed, low-latency broadband internet in remote and rural locations across the globe.”
Its service is “made possible via the world’s largest constellation of highly advanced satellites operating in a low orbit around the earth.”
Among the satellite internet services that compete with Starlink in Mexico are Viasat and HughesNet. An analysis conducted late last year – before
Starlink was offering its service here – found that Viasat provided Mexico’s fastest satellite internet service for downloads, but speeds were
well below the fixed broadband median.
Some Starlink customers in Mexico have reported speeds of 200 Mbps or more with latency between 70 and 100 milliseconds. The latter is far lower than
that of other satellite internet service providers. |
thanks for posting this Scott....that was nice of Elon huh!
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El Jefe
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Me too. The notice I got said invoices after August 24 would reflect the new pricing. I just got an invoice dated August 28 that has the old price.
It seems the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing. I will not waste my time trying to contact Starlink which appears to be run by
robots. I tried once to reach a human being to no avail. Will wait until the next bill which hopefully will be corrected and maybe even have a credit
for this one
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Don Pisto
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so how does this work, if you forgo the mexico discount on gear and monthly and buy the gear in the u.s. with a u.s. address and use it to stream
movies in mexico.....do you not require a VPN?
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| Quote: Originally posted by Don Pisto | | Quote: Originally posted by HeyMulegeScott |
Starlink, the satellite internet company owned by the world’s richest person, Elon Musk, has slashed its monthly service fee by over 50%.
As of Wednesday, Starlink’s customers in Mexico pay 1,100 pesos per month (US $55), a 52% decrease compared to the former fee of 2,299 pesos.
Starlink has also reduced the price of its hardware kit, which includes an antenna, to 8,300 pesos (US $414) from 9,896 pesos, a 16% drop.
The hardware kit is now shipped free of charge whereas the previous cost was 1,420 pesos (about US $70). In addition to Mexico, the company lowered
its prices in many other countries where it offers satellite internet service.
“The price reduction factors in your local market conditions and is meant to reflect parity in purchasing power across our customers,” Starlink
said in an email to customers.
Federal telecommunications authorities granted Musk’s company permission to operate in Mexico for 10 years in June 2021.
On its website, Starlink says it offers “high-speed, low-latency broadband internet in remote and rural locations across the globe.”
Its service is “made possible via the world’s largest constellation of highly advanced satellites operating in a low orbit around the earth.”
Among the satellite internet services that compete with Starlink in Mexico are Viasat and HughesNet. An analysis conducted late last year – before
Starlink was offering its service here – found that Viasat provided Mexico’s fastest satellite internet service for downloads, but speeds were
well below the fixed broadband median.
Some Starlink customers in Mexico have reported speeds of 200 Mbps or more with latency between 70 and 100 milliseconds. The latter is far lower than
that of other satellite internet service providers. |
thanks for posting this Scott....that was nice of Elon huh! |
Nice? Are you being sarcastic? Sometimes it's tough to tell on message boards.
I bet SpaceX lowered Starlink prices in Mexico because few were signing up. So the company is losing even more money on every new Mexican customer it
enrolls. Perhaps it will make it up in volume. 
[Edited on 8-28-2022 by SFandH]
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Don Pisto
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| Quote: Originally posted by SFandH | | Quote: Originally posted by Don Pisto | | Quote: Originally posted by HeyMulegeScott |
Starlink, the satellite internet company owned by the world’s richest person, Elon Musk, has slashed its monthly service fee by over 50%.
As of Wednesday, Starlink’s customers in Mexico pay 1,100 pesos per month (US $55), a 52% decrease compared to the former fee of 2,299 pesos.
Starlink has also reduced the price of its hardware kit, which includes an antenna, to 8,300 pesos (US $414) from 9,896 pesos, a 16% drop.
The hardware kit is now shipped free of charge whereas the previous cost was 1,420 pesos (about US $70). In addition to Mexico, the company lowered
its prices in many other countries where it offers satellite internet service.
“The price reduction factors in your local market conditions and is meant to reflect parity in purchasing power across our customers,” Starlink
said in an email to customers.
Federal telecommunications authorities granted Musk’s company permission to operate in Mexico for 10 years in June 2021.
On its website, Starlink says it offers “high-speed, low-latency broadband internet in remote and rural locations across the globe.”
Its service is “made possible via the world’s largest constellation of highly advanced satellites operating in a low orbit around the earth.”
Among the satellite internet services that compete with Starlink in Mexico are Viasat and HughesNet. An analysis conducted late last year – before
Starlink was offering its service here – found that Viasat provided Mexico’s fastest satellite internet service for downloads, but speeds were
well below the fixed broadband median.
Some Starlink customers in Mexico have reported speeds of 200 Mbps or more with latency between 70 and 100 milliseconds. The latter is far lower than
that of other satellite internet service providers. |
thanks for posting this Scott....that was nice of Elon huh! |
Nice? Are you being sarcastic? Sometimes it's tough to tell on message boards.
I bet SpaceX lowered Starlink prices in Mexico because few were signing up. So the company is losing even more money on every new Mexican customer it
enrolls. Perhaps it will make it up in volume.
[Edited on 8-28-2022 by SFandH] |
not being sarcastic at all, sorry you don't like this visionary but why look a gift horse in the mouth? just looking for BN argument?
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| Quote: Originally posted by El Jefe |
Me too. The notice I got said invoices after August 24 would reflect the new pricing. I just got an invoice dated August 28 that has the old price.
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i have an invoice for Sept 3, which has the price drop (2200p to 1100p) ... i got service a bit over a month ago ... equipment shipped via DHL to my
house in BCS ... hopefully everyone gets the discount before too long ...
jake
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