Who can know for sure they won’t need to end their service early? Life happens.Īnd even if you cancel after those first 90 days, you’ll still owe a hefty amount: $400 minus $15 for each month you’ve kept your service. This is one of the reasons we dislike contracts so much. But if your equipment is already installed and you decide to cancel your internet service only 90 days or less into your two-year contract, there’ll be a big honkin’ $400 cancellation fee heading your way. If you cancel before your equipment is installed, HughesNet says it’ll refund what you paid when you placed your order. But the lowest you’ll possibly pay to cancel is $85, which is still a decent chunk of change. The early termination fee decreases the longer you keep your service.
Total: $2,325.00 for two years of service. Viasat Liberty 50: $75.00 a month for three months, then $100.00 a month for 21 months.Total: $2,579.76 for two years of service. HughesNet 45 GB: $99.99 for the first 6 months and then $109.99 a month until 24 months.Liberty 50 starts at $75 a month, while Unlimited Silver 25 starts at $84.99 a month.
The closest comparable Viasat plans, Liberty 50 and Unlimited Silver 25, come with 12 to 25 Mbps download speeds and 50 to 120 GB of data. The HughesNet 45 GB plan comes with 25 Mbps download speeds and 45 GB of data for $99.99 a month for the first 6 months and then $109.99 a month for months 7-24. HughesNet used to be the better deal compared to Viasat, at least if you needed less data.