Joe Hansen(@joehansen):Starlink ended June with 12.0 million subscribers. A year earlier it had 6 million. Hughes, the old leader in satellite internet: 622,000, down 24% in a year. Viasat in the US: 115,000 and still shrinking. Starlink is now 16 times bigger than both of them combined. Hughes and Viasat beam internet from satellites 36,000 km up. Starlink flies at about 550 km. Customers noticed the difference.

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2026.10.19 16:01

Starlink ended June with 12.0 million subscribers. A year earlier it had 6 million. Hughes, the old leader in satellite internet: 622,000, down 24% in a year. Viasat in the US: 115,000 and still shrinking. Starlink is now 16 times bigger than both of them combined. Hughes and Viasat beam internet from satellites 36,000 km up. Starlink flies at about 550 km. Customers noticed the difference.