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

[Larry Press]

Maybe. The article says  "SpaceX sells consumer Starlink antennas, also known as user terminals, for $599 each."

They might also be considering profit from the more expensive non-consumer terminals.

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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 $117.84:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/d/1tuhyh6kbyDQ2D418ug_AgS1ZM_8MDDznrjWzDthU61w/htmlview#gid=0<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/d/1tuhyh6kbyDQ2D418ug_AgS1ZM_8MDDznrjWzDthU61w/htmlview*gid=0__;Iw!!P7nkOOY!oOD--sSuHrmf_73Crf5At7ibwEnUvvr_BnBga3LKLsW9IbjdwLkVjzepTlfzFgwYB7SI9t05gRzrhKVpPEMVYWDfhg$>

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<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://circleid.com/posts/20220906-spacex-introduces-affordability-based-starlink-pricing__;!!P7nkOOY!oOD--sSuHrmf_73Crf5At7ibwEnUvvr_BnBga3LKLsW9IbjdwLkVjzepTlfzFgwYB7SI9t05gRzrhKVpPEOMAQk52Q$>

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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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