Starlink is retiring Global Roam and capping Roam Unlimited at 30 days abroad (seabits.com)

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Starlink, after enshitifying low earth orbit, and after its botched IPO, enshitifies Global Roam by capping its usage.

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[-] DupaCycki@lemmy.world 30 points 2 days ago

It's odd that Poland isn't in the list above for Europe — it's a live Starlink market and an EU country, so there's no obvious reason for the exclusion. Cyprus, Moldova, and Monaco are missing for the same unclear reason. The Balkan gap (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia) makes more sense, since most of those countries don't have live Starlink service yet.

The entire EU is treated as one country, except for Poland. Interesting detail.

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