[Starlink] SpaceX no longer taking losses to produce Starlink satellite antennas, a key step to improving profitability

[Larry Press]

The US price is $599, but the price varies from country to country. They sell for as low as $117.84:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/d/1tuhyh6kbyDQ2D418ug_AgS1ZM_8MDDznrjWzDthU61w/htmlview#gid=0

Elon Musk said the prices would be uniform throughout the world originally, but affordability-based pricing was inevitable:
https://circleid.com/posts/20220906-spacex-introduces-affordability-based-starlink-pricing

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  *   SpaceX is no longer absorbing the cost of the Starlink antennas that it sells with its satellite internet service, a company executive said on Wednesday.
  *   “We were subsidizing terminals but we’ve been iterating on our terminal production so much that we’re no longer subsidizing terminals, which is a good place to be,” Jonathan Hofeller, SpaceX vice president of Starlink and commercial sales, said during a panel at the World Satellite Business Week conference.

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