Dear Editor, Starlink is here officially, YAY! And of course it is the most expensive in the Pacific, yet still better than Vodafone Cook Islands. Not yay!

How does this happen? Starlink is smart. Australia, NZ, Fiji have strong competition and good cheap internet, so Starlink needs to be priced competitively (cheaper) to attract customers. Cook Islands has weak competition and bad expensive internet so less need for Starlink to be competitive.

Why is it when we pay for things – power, internet, food we pay more than our neighbours and when we look at income, fishing royalties for example, we get paid less?

Well, here’s your chance Vodafone, the war is not lost, your previous dominance and your substandard offerings has done you a favour and allowed Starlink to rob us by pricing it higher than our neighbours.

Let’s face it Vodafone, if you were offering blazing fast internet at cheap prices, our Starlink would have been cheaper.

We know fibre to the door done right is better than LEO Satellites, speed wise, latency etc, so Vodafone, pull up your socks, sharpen your pencil, be smart and find a way and win the war for the locals you serve.

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