The priority speed will be double the standard service plan speed. The Standard service gets unlimited standard internet download speed. The Priority will have data caps for the higher speed priority service and then unlimited Standard speed. Priority will continue to get better prioritization for service. Priority will also get a superior receiving antenna dish and other improved hardware.
SpaceX Starlink has been slower to get its dish production ramped up. I have adjusted my revenue forecast down based upon the slower execution.
The key to SpaceX Starlink ramping revenue in 2024 significantly would be have production at the new dish factory ramped to 500,000 to 1 million dishes per month instead of 100,000 to 150,000 per month. SpaceX will also need to grow international distribution channels.
SpaceX needs to ramp up the Starshield secured network for government, military and other financial customers.
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The licensing achilles heel is a single user antenna, despite being a phased array, isn’t allowed to have more than one beam at a time. Multiple beams, either by time sharing the array to split to two or more sats, plus using the other polarization to double the beam, would unlock additional bandwidth to individual user terminals.
I’m wondering about the traction Starlink is getting. I was recently offered a Dish for CAD$200 ($150USD) in ‘rural’ areas. My parents’ address who live in a town of 25,000 were eligible for this price, but not me in my more (sub)urban address. However, Starlink was offering me service in a fairly dense area (at the regular CAD$760/USD$560 dish price), which I take to mean that they have capacity in the cell. The fact that they are discounting hardware is indicative to me that they are not hardware constrained on subscriber growth.
They may have to start lowering monthly prices, as most people here can get gigabit fiber class service for the price of Starlink. And most people are not willing to pay that much for internet unless it is the only option (even if Starlink is better).