There’s no doubt Starlink is working hard to please its customers, globally. It’s just 5 days since it went live in Zimbabwe and we can’t keep up with the positive changes the company is announcing almost everyday.
The company has just announced that customers on the Roam package can now use their Starlinks while travelling at 160km per hour. They can also now use them internationally. Meaning they can get on a plane today to India, and just continue using their Starlink seamlessly.
In Zimbabwe and the rest of Southern Africa, the Starlink Roam package subscription is about $100. That’s actually after an increase in August. Before that it was around $40.
A Starlink customer in Zimbabwe who is on the Roam package (a Malawi registered kit) says they got an email from Starlink today announcing the change:
This establish Starlink further as a global internet service provider, the first of its kind. The full list of services is:
- Unlimited or 50GB of data
- Countrywide coverage within country of account address
- In-motion use up to 160 Km/h
- Ability to pause and un-pause service at any time (billing is in one-month increments)
- International travel in available markets for up to 2 months per trip
- Coastal coverage in territorial waters for up to 2 months per trip
- For Roam 50GB, ability to opt into purchasing additional data by the GB is supported
Who is the ideal Roam user
Anyone who can afford $100 uncapped internet a month is ofcourse an ideal user. Who doesn’t want internet that works anywhere they are? The big limitation with 4G has always been network coverage.
Businesses however, those looking to provide more convenience by connecting their customers, or those looking to have their executives always connected wherever they are, will no doubt love this.
Passenger Transport Businesses
Passenger transport businesses will find this really useful as an additional service to customers. Any bus operator can the Standard Starlink kit, have installed on the bus and have passengers use high speed internet, even as bus cruises at top speed. Our passenger train company, NRZ would make its customers happier having Starlink services available on their trains.
Travelling Business People
The lack of network coverage has always been a frustration for business people that travel. You’re used to good fibre connectivity at the office, but when you travel you know at the back of your mind you will not be as available online. You don’t the network situation to the city you have travelled to.
If it’s a remote location you’re generally assured there’s no good internet at all, unless the IT guys at your company have made specific arrangements for good connectivity at its branch and branches and other smaller locations. Hotels are just as unreliable – providing great internet is just not their core business.
With Starlink Roam, the IT department can finally just buy kits for business executives and travelling employees (marketing, sales, field officers and so on).
Content Creators
We have worked with content creators for more than 10 years now. One of the biggest frustrations with this work, is the reality that you go to a location that you’re creating content on, do the content (pictures, film etc…) and then wait to travel back to the office to get decent connectivity so you go live with your content.
Now uploading for whatever is ready, can be done anywhere the creator is. The creator can even live-streaming anywhere they are. This is a big change and will no doubt boost content creation in the Zimbabwe and Africa.
Vacationing Families
The number of lower middle (going up) families that are choosing to travel within the country and the region seems on the rise. There’s been a lot of marketing of local destinations to locals. Of course you want to be enjoying the moment and not be busy just creating for likes.
What else do you think this development will impact?
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- Dandemutande Announces Starlink Authorised Reseller Status
- Frampol’s Starlink Pandora’s Box – The Zig Rate and Compliance vs Market Reality
12 comments
Now they have done something amazing…..! Apa wangu mushika mushika unenge wava neStarLink kkkkkkkk
Kkkkkkk makaoma
Yes…but zimpricecheck.co.zw, has already reported congestion for the starlink mini kit, and starlink has closed any further orders for it, and a 15min window has been given for the standard kit when making an order online, there are too many orders being made, and we are told to hurry and purchase a kit before stock runs out, please verify
Will the airline allow me to fit my Starlink aerial in or on it?
Things are really moving fast for the man who will become the first trillionaire in a few years from now.
Thanks to Techzim for keeping us up to the minute with Starlink
Thing is, a lot of airlines already have their own solutions (Starlink included I think) that they expect you to pay for directly or indirectly as a free add-on on a high class ticket. Not to mention they won’t be chuffed with you operating an untested, uncertified device with a slim potential to mess with onboard systems.
Chances of consistent connectivity from inside are also low. Lol, and forget about mounting unauthorized equipment to the fuselage! Whole planes have burned to nothing thanks to FOD from slivers of metal, imagine if your kit somehow got loose and got sucked up by another plane!
How many kits can one individual purchase?
Transport ministry this is the time to have roads serviced for vehicular tracking purposes, and I’m sure vehicle theft and abuse of country’s road would be a thing of the past
This new package came with a price increase overseas. In the USA they’ve increased the price to $165, for these “new” features.
Yup. They seem very reactive in pricing, up or down, overseas. I know some Nigerians weren’t chuffed a while back they got an adjustment too. Zimbos need to prepare their hearts and wallets!
This is not ideal for poor Zimbabweans. Econet will do for us . We hardly have money for basics in our high density areas
Starlink no doubt loves money, but their model is not yet to go for mass market. Let those who can afford go for it and maybe in a few years when Starlink has completed it’s constellation with new gen, high capacity satellites, every will afford a slice of Elons pie in the sky
Greetings
Sorry for being dense but is this how it works:
l buy the kit, install it on my vehicle and wherever l move it works?
OR
l buy the kit subscribe for the relevant package, affix the kit to a set destination, then travel and access the net, provided l am within the stipulated boundaries? l am getting this idea from the 5km radius in the residential offerings.
OR
Both the above hold true?
Please help to clarify the confusion.