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

[Marc Blanchet]

My take is that the comment from the VP was “generic”: ie. overall, the profit from selling the terminals was negative but now it is positive, on total. Local prices, discounts, … are taken into account in the comment I guess.

Marc.

> Le 13 sept. 2023 à 17:28, Larry Press via Starlink <starlink at lists.bufferbloat.net> a écrit :
> 
> 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
> 
> From: Starlink <starlink-bounces at lists.bufferbloat.net <mailto:starlink-bounces at lists.bufferbloat.net>> on behalf of the keyboard of geoff goodfellow via Starlink <starlink at lists.bufferbloat.net <mailto:starlink at lists.bufferbloat.net>>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2023 10:04 AM
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> Subject: [Starlink] SpaceX no longer taking losses to produce Starlink satellite antennas, a key step to improving profitability
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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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