Anecdotally, 5G is significantly better at line of sight at significant distances than previous technology. While sailing 40+ miles offshore this summer, I've gotten 5G on deck, with decent upload performance using my iPhone, when in years previous I didn't get coverage much beyond 12 miles anywhere around where I sail, despite there being tall buildings with cell towers on them with a 30+ mile horizon for at least 2 decades. I use ATT, but super excited for this cell service anywhere future, will be switching to T-Mobile SIM for my dev phone.
I’m booking a cruise on which they’re asking $200 for five days of data. This would be helpful if we were too far off shore to get reception to avoid such high fees. Starlink itself currently offers service to ships at a cost of $5000/mo. plus $10,000 for the hardware. This could save a lot of money where a simple mobile data plan would suffice.
I took a cruise last week where they wanted 25$ a day per device for internet. I took a little battery powered 4G dongle to leave on the balcony to give our room wifi which worked quite well even when land was barely in sight. Of course the land had to be on our side of the ship.
