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  "description": "Elon Musk's satellite company announced 6 million subscribers globally.",
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  "publishedAt": "2025-06-10T17:27:43.000Z",
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  "tags": [
    "_post by Starlink on X_",
    "4 million subscribers",
    "_end-of-2024 report_",
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    "_reporting on drastic changes_",
    "_defines “served areas”_",
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  "textContent": "WASHINGTON, June 10, 2025– Starlink announced its 6 million subscribers on the social media platform X, heralding a new wave of success following faster internet speeds.\n\n“Starlink is connecting more than 6M people with high-speed internet across 140 countries, territories, and many other markets. Thank you to all our customers around the world!” the _post by Starlink on X_ said.\n\nStarlink had announced 4 million subscribers back in September 2024, when the company only covered 100 countries.\n\nThe company’s slogan to “connect the unconnected” is supported by its _end-of-2024 report_, which revealed it launched 200 satellites last year. _Space.com_ said, “As of May. 30, 2025, there are currently 7,578 Starlink satellites in orbit, of which 7,556 are working.”\n\nAn internet connectivity service, Ookla, tracked the speeds of Starlink’s satellites on Tuesday, _reporting on drastic changes_ in internet speeds.\n\nOokla reported that since 2022, the median download speeds have increased from 53.95 Megabits per second (Mbps) to 104.71 Mbps in 2025.\n\nThe Federal Communications Commission _defines “served areas”_ as places where download speeds are more than 100 Mbps, making Starlink a viable competitor for Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program service bidding. The bidding includes states looking for broadband that will cover the most area, while staying _within the budget_ that the BEAD program allocated.\n\nHowever, Ookla said “only 17.4% of U.S. Starlink Speedtest users nationwide were able to get broadband speeds” in the 100 Mbps threshold.\n\nIn the third quarter of 2022, upload speeds were 7.50 Mbps, and then about doubled by the first quarter of 2025 to 14.84 Mbps. This, however, does not meet the FCC's 20 Mbps upload requirement to be considered a “served area.”\n\nLatency, the length of time it takes two devices to transmit data, reported lower numbers. The Ookla report said that the latency speeds were lowest in Washingto, D.C., Arizona, Colorado, and New Jersey, all reported around 38-39 milliseconds (ms) median latency.\n\nThe report also said that “Starlink said its goal is to deliver service with just 20 milliseconds (ms) median latency.” Outlying states like Alaska and Hawaii, at 105 ms and 115 ms, respectively, are reporting the slowest speeds.",
  "title": "Starlink Expands Subscribers and Speeds",
  "updatedAt": "2026-03-11T03:28:03.398Z"
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