| https://www.cnet.com/home/internet/free-internet-hurricane-h... There's an offer here for free service from Verizon. Is it meaningfully false if they aren't giving free phones? What about Starlink direct to Cell? Apple's SOS? https://www.homedepot.com/p/STARLINK-Standard-Kit-High-Speed... That's 349 at Home Depot as an example Another thing you've missed is activation isn't required for use. > 2. Tweets with no primary sources As opposed to news authors who don't know how the service works? And it's not only this author Look at this one https://www.zdnet.com/home-and-office/networking/starlinks-h... Cited someone on Reddit. If he didn't we'd have just taken the claim as fact but when you go and check, you find out that unlike me she's not a starlink user. And when she's called out and admits she knows nothing about it she refuses to retract her claims. Just like in the comment section of the article, several people insist only FEMA rather than SpaceX and several other orgs have delivered free dishes to help. I'm sure you can find an article to buttress that claim but it's not the on ground reality That person on Twitter is the one that asked for free service. As I pointed out he already had the equipment. >The $400 for the hardware is highway robbery and an opportunistic cash grab. The only way this would be true is if they increased the prices just because of this Hurricane. It's exactly around the same price as a Jupiter dish from HughesNet too. And you can sell it too. It's your property. I don't need articles because I've installed the stuff. When you get a new dish you have one hour unlocked Internet to activate your service. Now that's 30 days. Talk about auto enrollment into some contract is easily avoided nonsense. |