Sawyer Merritt(@SawyerMerritt):Communications company Viasat has now lost 81% of its fixed broadband subscribers since SpaceX started offering @Starlink services to the public in 2020. Viasat now has 115,000 subscribers in the US – a decrease from 603,000 reported in Sept 2020. In Q2 2026 alone, they lost another 15,000 subs. Viasat plans to start serving users from its next-generation F2 satellite next month, which they say is able to deliver 100+ Mbps download speed, but latency is still expected to be 10-20x worse than Starlink's satellites.

2026.08.05 16:31

Communications company Viasat has now lost 81% of its fixed broadband subscribers since SpaceX started offering @Starlink services to the public in 2020. Viasat now has 115,000 subscribers in the US – a decrease from 603,000 reported in Sept 2020. In Q2 2026 alone, they lost another 15,000 subs. Viasat plans to start serving users from its next-generation F2 satellite next month, which they say is able to deliver 100+ Mbps download speed, but latency is still expected to be 10-20x worse than Starlink's satellites.