Starlink - Anyone get it yet?

If everyone used Starlink, the price would go up. In UK it is €91per month, and in US €116 per month. The capacity has to be rationed to avoid overloading the satellites, and this is done by setting the price higher in regions of higher population and takeup. Ireland already had a high level of fibre in urban and most rural areas even before NBP, allowing Starlink to offer very competitive pricing here. Without fibre this would not have been possible.

The average salary in Bulgaria is around a third of Ireland, and in Cyprus about a half. If Starlink prices there are similar to Ireland, the locals will find them substantially more punitive relative to their income vs Irish customers. Hence the level of bandwidth rationing is probably closer to what is achieved is US or UK with a much higher price point. Ireland gets away with a lower price point despite high income levels, because fibre penetration is high, population density is low, and hence demand for Starlink is low.

Its Black and White on the middle of the Starlink home page. I can understand anyone wanting to check if there are any special offers but don't see any point wasting peoples time asking for info you can look up yourself.

To be fair it's easy to say Musk is a tool and avoid his products he's just the most high profile of the many tools out there.. they would probably all love his stage at the moment.. plenty of dodgy unethical companies out there id imagine making most of the products we consume every day..

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Amazon will probably have their system up and running before thiseven happens

I'm glad that Starlink has worked out for you, despite your initial skepticism. Given its proven performance I still believe it to be an excellent infill solution, as I forecast at the pilot stage. If anything, it has far exceed expectations in terms of capacity and reach. (I am no fanboy for Elon Musk, but I do respect his drive and technological brilliance. His politics, less so…)
You can trust no network provider with your data, if it is in any way sensitive. A private VPN/encryption solution is as secure as it gets and should be sufficient for most. (Public VPN solutions have their uses, but increasing security is not one of them.)

Where would be the best place to source a reputable and reliable installer?

Many thanks.

I know a few, where are you

Yup cables went in just under a year ago

I must have mixed you up. During the initial rollout someone said that Starlink's main application would be to support Tesla's driverless cars, and that it was not suitable for home use. Thought it was you… 

As to how it works, I have yet to see any significant detail in the public domain. I have read this assessment of the transport level protocol, but this gives nothing on the space segment protocol or routing algorithms. There is an outline of the overall architecture in this document, that indicates that all internal routing, other than ingress and egress, are now entirely within the space segment. 

Have you come across more informative documentation?