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I saw Hughesnet is ending, Starlink suggested. Is this true?
If HughesNet's business history tracks, they've never shut anyone off unless a particular satellite was going out of service and the user didn't upgrade. Revenue is still revenue and cash is king, and those satellites still have to recover costs. I really doubt they'd turn off an existing known revenue stream, thinking they can make it up with an unknown market projection.
Based on that I'd be willing to think the plan would be to discontinue any future residential service applications in favor of focusing on business terminals. As long as residential customers continue to pay and remain on contract they'll just let attrition take it's natural course. But I really doubt anyone would be cut off if they didn't take any prospective StarLink offer. I would also expect a reduction in any kind of sunk cost/investment towards residential user support, which might include this site.
Again, this is just supposition on my part based on past history.
Hopefully you're right, though according to the 10-Q: The commercial agreements will also provide for a fee-based referral program that lets EchoStar refer existing HughesNet customers and new Starlink customers to SpaceX."
Edit: I only gave the report a very cursory reading, so I may have missed important info.
It's very possible that they would offer people the opportunity to cancel their contracts (early?) as part of their attrition plan.
Yeah, totally.
I hope they or the other guy offer free equipment [which in my area appears not to be a thing].
