A “very common thing” that Starlink does not do.

You’re angry about a company offering something in the hurricane affected area that they don’t normally do with regular customers.

It doesn’t matter if other companies offer something similar normally to new customers, Starlink does not do this, so it is a special thing for the Hurricane areas.

Not sure why this is so hard for you to understand here, other than a blinding bias.

Your right, except Starlink doesn’t offer free service to new customers normally.

So it is something special they don’t normally do.

not the charitable donation you seem to think it is.

I never claimed it was a charitable donation.

I’m just astounded you are defending marketing this deceptive.

I’m not defending anything. The “marketing” is not deceptive. Starlink said they would provide free service… And that’s what they’re doing.

Everyone else is assuming that would include other shit like free hardware that Starlink never claimed and has never offered free previously. There is absolutely zero reason to expect free hardware here, yet that seems to be what you all are expecting for some reason.

Bullshit. Neither the local ISP I am using now nor shitty Spectrum when I had it charged me a dime. When we switched to the local ISP, Spectrum just wanted it back.

And yet companies like Comcast charge $5+ per month to rent their shitty modem, and will even charge customers who never had a rental modem at all. Your area isn’t indicative of the entire country.

They’ll send this one back regardless.

In fact, that’s how it generally works with ISPs and the modem they provide you with when you sign up for their service.

Your Cable/DSL modem isn’t a $400 piece of equipment, and probably sold at a loss at this point given the tech is still new. At best those ISP modems are worth maybe $100, and that’s the marked up purchase price.

Even then, the ISPs never give it to you for free, they charge you a monthly rental fee for it unless you bring your own.

No, but expecting a company to provide $400 in free equipment is also ridiculous. They’re offering free service, which is what they said they were, they never claimed anything more.

But the anti-Musk circlejerk doesn’t care about anything other than complaining about anything related to him, so this response is 100% expected.

If they were providing free hardware as well you all would just complain about something else instead.

How many of those companies have hundreds of dollars in up front hardware costs that they don’t normally discount or just give away as a course of regular business (where that is already calculated into operating costs)?

1. Company offers free service in natural disaster areas.

2. Internet villifies company for offering free service but not giving away $400 in free hardware to every person as well.

3. Internet wonders why most companies don’t do anything.