Starlink, SpaceX's satellite internet service, continues to spread its wings. After completing the beta trial at the end of last year, the Starlink service is now available in 32 countries.
From the availability map on the official Starlink website, you can see three different blue colors that mark areas where Starlink services are already 'available', on the 'waiting list', and 'coming soon'.
Areas already marked as 'available' and on 'waiting list' are mostly in North America, Europe, South America, Australia and New Zealand. Users who have ordered from countries already covered by Starlink's service will receive their antennas in the near future.
Meanwhile, other regions such as most of South America, Africa and Asia are still marked 'coming soon'. Starlink said areas that fall into this category are still waiting for network availability or approval from regulators.
In these three regions, Starlink said its services will be available starting in 2023, as quoted from The Verge, Sunday (15/5/2022).
Starlink is now available in 32 countries around the world. People ordering from areas marked “available” will have their Starlink shipped immediately → https://t.co/slZbTmHdml pic.twitter.com/CecM1pkf5D
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) May 13, 2022
Internet users have been waiting for Starlink's presence.
For other countries that are included in the 'coming soon' category, they have been able to pre-order Starlink services since last year. How to enter the Starlink site, enter the address and pay a deposit of USD 99.
Starlink internet costs in the United States itself are quite expensive and recently the price has gone up. To buy the antenna, it costs USD 549, while the monthly service fee is USD 110.
SpaceX has slowly begun to expand its Starlink service worldwide since completing beta trials late last year. To speed up network expansion, the company created by Elon Musk is speeding up the launch of a satellite in 2022.
So far there have been 2,500 Starlink satellites in the air and they are targeting 30,000 satellites for the next generation. As of May 2022, 12 of SpaceX's 19 space launch missions are aimed at delivering the Starlink satellite.