Amazon revealed Tuesday that it has nailed down the hardware it’ll offer would-be customers. The goal, Amazon says, was to land on something that’s both cost-efficient and frictionless for consumer installs. It seems to have delivered on both, as the units apparently cost less than $500 to manufacture — and in lighter and smaller packages. For home consumers, the biggest unit’s surface measures less than 11 square inches, and the terminal — sans mounting bracket — is just one inch thick.
Despite the size and cost, Amazon says this middle-tier Kuiper antenna is capable of handling speeds up to 400 megabits per second, which can’t match the fastest landline broadband offerings by any measure, but it’s plenty good for smaller, less active households.
When you have few other choices, anything is better than relying on cell towers, the throughput of which can struggle mightily in many of the markets Kuiper intends to serve. There is also a seven-inch terminal design that offers up to 100 megabits.
The biggest unit is reserved for enterprise customers. It measures 19-by-30 inches, and supports speeds up to one gigabit per second. Pending successful tests in partnership with United Launch Alliance, Amazon is targeting a late-2024 launch for Project Kuiper. Mass production is scheduled to begin inside its Kirkland, Washington fabrication facility at the onset of that year.
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