India has halted Starlink dish pre-orders, insisting the company registers to obtain an operating license. The government made the order through its Twitter handle, as was reported by Reuters.
The tweet read as “Public is advised not to subscribe to Starlink services being advertised,” asking the satellite company to stop “booking / rendering the satellite internet services in India.”
Meanwhile, Starlink is refreshing its dish with a new smaller rectangular design. This remake makes the dish thinner and lighter. A big change from the circular dish that its beta users have been using for some time now.
Meanwhile, the new dish weighs about 9.2 pounds that’s almost half the weight of the older dish at 16 pounds. Starlink however hasn’t changed the pricing of this new rectangular dish, retailing for $499 as the old dish kit.
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The Starlink public beta test started in October 2020. The public transition has provided the company with solid 12 months of beta testing. Musk vision of his internet service would provide low-cost bandwidth to users in rural places and remote communities.
Interestingly, the low-cost internet service is one of the fastest around. It has the capacity to reach 100Mbps download and also an achievable 20Mbps upload speed.
The company now serves about 12 countries with its internet connectivity. To sign up, simply visit its website and also input your service address.
Reuter also reports that since Starlink November 1st, official presence in India, it has received over 5,000 pre-orders. The satellite company plans to deploy over 200,000 devices in India by 2022, but there’s no word on if it will cancel its current pre-orders.
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