A year after ditching waitlist, Starlink says it is “sold out” in parts of US

The Starlink waitlist is again in sure components of the US, together with a number of massive cities on the West Coast and in Texas. The Starlink availability map says the service is bought out in and round Seattle and Spokane, Washington; Portland, Oregon; San Diego; Sacramento, California; and Austin, Texas. Neighboring cities and cities are included within the sold-out zones.

There are further sold-out areas in small components of Colorado, Montana, and North Carolina. As PCMag noted yesterday, the change comes a couple of yr after Starlink added capability and removed its waitlist all through the US.

Elsewhere in North America, there are some sold-out areas in Canada and Mexico. Throughout the Atlantic, Starlink is bought out in London and neighboring cities. Starlink just isn’t but accessible in most of Africa, and a number of the areas the place it’s accessible are bought out.

Starlink is usually seen as most helpful in rural areas with much less entry to wired broadband, nevertheless it appears to be attracting curiosity in additional closely populated areas, too. Whereas detailed region-by-region subscriber numbers aren’t accessible publicly, SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell said last week that Starlink has almost 5 million customers worldwide.