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Not sure if this would cover the use cases you're thinking of, but they have significantly improved management for business customers in the past year or so.

Last year, you couldn't get API access at all unless you went through one of their distributors or spent $1M+/year on Starlink, but now you can use the API [0] as a normal business customer. It's got pretty good telemetry and management features.

[0] https://starlink.readme.io/docs/getting-started

by bottlepalm6 hours ago|

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https://starlink.com/business ?

by hugmynutus6 hours ago|

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Starlink 'Business' and 'Enterprise' plans are fundamentally different [1]. 1M/yr spend to qualify [1]. A lot of features you expect [3] are not included in normal business plans (or are exclusive to certain units). The segmentation is strange as offering this as 'up-sell' is 100% businesses would pay for. You don't have to take my word on it, as there is a validated market of 'resellers' [2] where you functionally join the reseller's enterprise plan. Paying the 'reseller' a tax to gain access to features starlink fully supports, but simply will not 'sell' to smaller customers, through the reseller's API gateway. It is absurd.

1. https://starlink.com/en-cw/support/article/babe863c-25ec-9df...

2. Peedcast, Marlink, or Peplink

3. where is my ground station, defer updates to a ground station, de/re-activate a ground station remotely, pool usage for all ground stations, remote reboot, all traffic is through a corporate VPN, bound multiple ground stations automatically.

by the-chitmonger5 hours ago|

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Wow, I really thought there'd be some kind of piecemeal offering that businesses could pay for, but it looks like the most Starlink offers is a flat rate for more data if you burn through your current usage allotment.

by rafski1235 hours ago|

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SIM? What other provider are you thinking will Starlink allow in their network?

by joezydeco5 hours ago|

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My company has been trying to get T-Mobile to return our calls for nearly a year now regarding any information on their promised IoT solution. Nothing so far.

https://www.t-mobile.com/business/solutions/iot/connectivity...

by giancarlostoro1 hours ago|

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I could be wrong, but I remember T-Mobile used to have an IoT page that actually led you to a place to order the SIM cards, my guess is they've discontinued it?

by dzhiurgis5 hours ago|

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A reasonably priced routing via satellite links is my dream. I work from NZ on various Salesforce projects (aka enterprise web apps). Ping is usually 200ms or so to the US. Laser interlinks could possibly cut that in half.

by flanz_106 hours ago|

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Funnily enough, that's on Amazon's LEO feature roadmap.

by FishAngular126 hours ago|

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That's awesome, imagine taking it with you on a Cruise

by madaxe_again33 minutes ago|

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It's against TOS. Cunard (Carnival) confiscated mine until the end of the voyage, made me buy their package.

by kolanos18 minutes ago|

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How did they figure out you had one?

by kay_o3 minutes ago|

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all cruise lines extensively search everything and you are required to be away from your bags for extended periods of time during boarding. most cruise lines also explicitly ban things like all cybersecurity equipment (flippers were particularly looked for) power strips etc.

Royal caribbean got my friend pulled into security and questioned for hours for a RPI, and they permitted it but held it locked away separately until you deboard at the end of trip (theres ''you cannot board at all with this item, figure it out or throw it away'' and theres ''we hold it until end of voyage'')

you usually spend 4+ hours away until you see your bag again at boarding time

by lp925 hours ago|

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Good god yes. Those WiFi prices on cruises is absolutely ridiculous unless you get it as part of a good package deal.