Photo / SuppliedOPINION:Orders have opened in New Zealand for the Starlink satellite broadband service, as provided by Elon Musk's SpaceX company, and pricing is the same as anywhere else in the world. Deliveries are expected to start in the second half of this year, so should rural providers feel nervous about Starlink? Maybe: for starters, Starlink service specifications are something that current remote broadband users can only dream of. Vodafone and Spark have fingers in the rural broadband pie and are keeping a close watch on Starlink. Starlink's $159 a month compares to Farmside's top-end 4G Rural Broadband Initiative (RBI) at $155.99 a month with a 200 gigabyte data cap and 24-month contract.

Source: New Zealand Herald February 23, 2021 16:09 UTC