Residents living off the grid are investigating new sources of Internet service with the pending closure of StarBand, an over-satellite provider that was available here for about a decade.
“We regret to inform you that due to steadily increasing operating costs, bandwidth demand and competing consumer broadband alternatives, we will be discontinuing StarBand services effective September 30, 2015,” the company said on its website this week.
Resident Robin Grace, who also lives across Mud Bay,…
