Cable-industry disruptor is back with new Internet service

The idea is to allow people to connect to the internet via a personal wireless hub within minutes. It’s essentially like setting up a cellphone connection, except for for broadband. You’ll be using the 3.8-inch touchscreen display to dig into all those details, and – perhaps thankfully – Ookla’s Speed Check service is baked right into the router, as is the ability to set parental controls and set up guest networks.

Kanojia says customers can install Starry themselves. You put that receiver, called a Starry Point, in your window to receive Internet speeds of up to a gigabit. That’s a separate access point that will probably be located outside your home in order to receive wireless signals from Starry… and then you’d connect the Starry Station (or possibly a different router, if it’s supported) to that device to blanket your home with internet access.

The Starry Station will go on preorder on February 5 and will begin shipping on March 6.

Kanojia and his crew are still unveiling Starry at an event in NY, so we’ll have more as the situation develops.

Starry will launch in Boston this summer before rolling out to other markets later in the year.

The wireless network will achieve gigabit speeds using high-frequency spectrum, including millimeter waves, the company said. It’ll be included with the Starry Internet service, but you could technically use another router.

Starry Station With Starry Station, the company is rewriting the book on Wi-Fi routers.

Project Decibel was founded by Chet Kanojia, the founder and CEO of the ill-fated TV-over-the-Internet startup Aereo.

The future of wireless internet just happened, and it came out of nowhere. Connecting people and things to high-speed, broadband internet should be simple, effortless and affordable.

Unlike your cellphone service though, starry won’t have data caps. Our belief is, if consumers have a better understanding of how their internet and Wi-Fi is performing, we can help improve performance and make life a little easier. Based in Boston and New York City, Starry is backed by world-class investors and led by the former executives of Aereo, the groundbreaking online television platform.