Starlink arrives in Argentina: date and prices of Elon Musk’s high-speed satellite internet

The satellite internet Elon Musk, star linkyou have everything ready to start serving in Argentina with speeds that they will duplicate fiber optic services currently operating.

Although the company has been operating since March of this year, when the Dutch subsidiaries of SpaceX and Starlink decided to create “Starlink Argentina SRL”, it has now announced that it will begin offering satellite internet in the fourth quarter of 2022.

As you read the message on the web, where it is already possible to reserve the super fast Internet service for $99, residential use of Starlink will be enabled in urban areas and rural of Argentina during the fourth quarter of this 2022.

To this must be added a one-time fee of $499 for the installation kit, which includes a tripod, a Wi-Fi router and a terminal to connect to the satellites.

The main goal of Musk’s project is to make the Internet connection accessible from anywhere on the globe, something he achieves through the use of one of the most important satellite networks on the planet, he confirmed on his official page when it will start working in the country.

Starlink is an internet service provided by a constellation of 1,700 low-orbiting satellites, known in English by its acronym LEO (Low Earth Orbitin Spanish Low Earth Orbit)

These work in combination with the terrestrial transceivers and are located closer to Earth, which helps reduce latency; and, on the other hand, they rely on a technology of laser connectivity to offer higher speeds.

The company had initially promised a download speed of between 50 and 150 Mbps; but in some places, it managed to exceed user expectations with speeds exceeding 160 Mbps.

To take dimension of how fast the Starlink internet is, the average connection speed in Argentina can be used as an example: according to the ENACOM data survey for the third quarter of 2021 carried out by the Argentine Internet Chamber –CABASE-, the average speed of fixed connections in the country is 48.5 Megabytes, with 49.1% of connections above 30 MB.

How Starlink works

Elon Musk’s satellite Internet service works by sending information through the vacuum of spacewhere it travels much faster than in the fiber optic cable and can reach many more people and places.

While most satellite Internet services come from geostationary satellites The only ones orbiting the planet at about 35,000 km, Starlink is a constellation of multiple satellites that orbit the planet much closer to Earth, at about 550 km, and cover the entire globe.

Starlink undertook to “provide internet services to companies or individuals, provide internet connectivity services and satellite internet services”, as well as “develop, market and install hardware devices, including antenna and user terminal”, among others. activities.

Because Musk’s company satellites are in a low orbitthe round-trip data time between the user and the satellite, also known as latencyis much smaller than with satellites in geostationary orbit.

Among other things, this key feature in the service allows the user play video games online that normally don’t stand a chance with satellite broadband, the company revealed on the Starlink website.

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