Internet anywhere in the world without a subscription?

[thenry]

Well that's conflicting information, new information which wasn't in the thread before.

[jem]

These devices are 100% a scam, a bit like the ones you sometimes seem being advertised promising ‘an end to costly cable TV subscriptions, just buy this box for a one off free and get all the channel you want’, generally they are also coincidentally available for 50% off for a limited time.

In the first link the inventor of this wonderful device was a ‘german telecoms engineer’ and how it works is vague. In the second link, showing an identical looking device, the inventor used to work for Space X and left to found his own company in competition with StarLink. He managed to get a satellite launched (no he didn’t) and can apparently provide global coverage with just the one satellite, whereas Elon Musk is planning a network of 42,000 to do the same thing!

It works on the basis of hard sell, gullibility, fear of missing out and the limited time for the discount, order NOW otherwise....

So you order one, and even assuming that something eventually turns up, you quickly come to the conclusion that it’s about as effective as a house brick. Getting a refund will prove oddly difficult, and many simply won’t bother and put the loss down to experience. Meanwhile they have your £49 or whatever, plus your physical address, email address, maybe card details and telephone number (for the postman?), which they sell on to scammers for an extra Brucie Bonus!

Honestly, just think about it - and remember the golden rule, ‘if something seems too good to be true - it isn’t’.

[thenry]

This is not the same as android boxes. The only two downsides to those boxes are that someone generally in China can spy on usage of the box through the non-existent os updater and the subscription can be abandoned. The receiver of the box does generally gain access so it does work.

This on the other hand is simply... no functionality at all.