Starry's Bankruptcy

Submitted by unresolved_m t3_11d0hn1 in CambridgeMA

Wondering if anyone here is using Starry Internet for a provider. They recently announced the bankruptcy and I saw an email where the founder said that it won't change anything in any big way. I'm still not sure, though - any ideas on what's going to service from them down the road? Is it going to be of lower quality?

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LukeNukem93 t1_ja6gbre wrote

I'm a customer still and see no reason not to trust them. My alternative is Comcast and they're infinitely worse.

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unresolved_m OP t1_ja6goac wrote

I agree!

I used RCN while I was in Waltham and I think Starry beats it in terms of quality/price. And both Verizon and Comcast seem horrible in comparison to both.

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Competitive_Bat4000 t1_ja72c8m wrote

Been using starry for 3+ years. I was using their $50 plan which on special went down to $25 over the summer. The lag got so bad recently that I had to upgrade to their $65 plan, no issues so far and no speed issues.

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unresolved_m OP t1_ja7xz0m wrote

For me its either them or RCN, but RCN is not available in Cambridge afaik

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Captainbostonfish420 t1_ja69672 wrote

They will probably get gobbled up by a cell phone company. I don’t see the point of their service when you can get the same thing with more perks from T-Mobile or Verizon home internet.

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unresolved_m OP t1_ja6aclm wrote

I think for me its mostly the price (15 bucks a month, which is laughably low). Also had no complaints about the service so far, but chances are it will get worse down the road.

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lvpre t1_ja7bwlh wrote

Their stock price has dropped 99.9% over the past year and is basically a penny stock now...it basically went from $10 to not even a cent in under a year.

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drizzlefoot321 t1_ja8oa8u wrote

If you live in a condo/apartment building you should get building admins to contact netblazr. They operate similar to starry, peer to peer mesh network. My building has both netblazr and starry and now with the bankruptcy the people using starry are moving to netblazr.

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anchordown16 t1_ja8x91x wrote

I use Starry and it's so cheap - I had one outage for about an hour but that's it. Feels a little "too good to be true"...so hoping it stays in business.

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