From their own website, also currently the only way to ‘buy it now’ so to speak. Also the only way to get the main benefit of Starlink, internet service independent of geographic location.
The pricing you’re referring to is a waitlist for ? period of time for a vast majority of the US population, at least last I checked.
Waitlists are not a product, they’re marketing.
Everywhere except the southeast US is available now: https://www.starlink.com/map
Even in that region you can buy the RV product which is deprioritized but maybe better than some peoples’ alternatives.
The ‘I want it now’ version is priced at 2500 USD up front and 500 USD/month thereafter.
I don’t consider things that are on a waitlist for ? long as ‘available for purchase’. See Roadster, Cybertruck, Tesla Semi, “Self Driving”, etc.
Haters gonna.
I’m all ears.
My view on this 'announcement' is -- Possible? Yes. Economical at scale? Likely not.
Even Starlink V1 has essentially become 'Pay us 2500 USD up front and 500 a month to get access now'. I question the viability of adding cellphone levels of users to a network like this, from not only an economic standpoint, but a physics/bandwidth standpoint on the EM spectrum.
Would love to be proven wrong on this.