150 sats \ 0 replies \ @BenAllenG 18 Apr
They built a beautiful piece of hardware only for the lawyers to make it just as shitty as everything else, amazing
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20 sats \ 4 replies \ @freetx 18 Apr
Buy 2 starlink units. Each month, turn one off and the other on. Claim that you are "mobile user" and were temporarily traveling.
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21 sats \ 3 replies \ @KenyaCoin OP 18 Apr
I believe the criteria is that the dish must check in from the home country, not just that it isn't active somewhere else.
But if you had two and can ship one back to the homeland to check in there, that would probably work. I don't know if there's problems bringing in the dish as freight. I suppose you could remove the board and just ship that -- customs would likely not figure out what that is a component of.
Starlink is THE solution for the tens of thousands of people who have no other option to communicate online, so I suppose having at least some approach like this to keep the signal is better than having no communications whatsoever.
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20 sats \ 2 replies \ @freetx 18 Apr
I suppose its not the "dish" that needs to check-in but something in the control unit box?
Ideally a "rental" business could be setup in which users mailed back the boxes every month and they swapped it out for a new unit
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @KenyaCoin OP 21 Apr
Inside the dish is a circuit board, with among other components, a webserver (for configuration).
There is an external Starlink designed router that most people use with their starlink, however the router is not required (if you have a different source for the power), and would not be the device that is used to deem the location of the dish.
But opening the dish to remove the board probably is not something easily done without risking causing damage, etc. Sending the entire dish would be easier for the user, but much more expensive and prone to problems with customs at the border.
It was just an idea, not something well thought out at this point.
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20 sats \ 0 replies \ @freetx 21 Apr
I see. I thought the physical dish was just a dumb antenna and the "security" was in the box....yeah sending the dish sounds like the only way.
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @KenyaCoin OP 18 Apr
The gov't in a number of African countries own partially or fully their mobile telecom network operators (e.g., Republic of Kenya owns 35% of Safaricom).
Starlink gives the opportunity to not be beholden to the mobile data network where broadband (e.g., cable network, fiber, etc.) isn't otherwise available.
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @KenyaCoin OP 18 Apr
Musk’s Starlink Cracks Down on Growing Black Market
https://www.wsj.com/world/africa/elon-musk-spacex-starlink-satellite-access-crackdown-e09f3e4e [Archive]
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