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<div class="ContentPasted1">Maybe. The article says "SpaceX sells consumer Starlink antennas, also known as user terminals, for $599 each."</div>
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<div class="ContentPasted1">They might also be considering profit from the more expensive non-consumer terminals.</div>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> Starlink <starlink-bounces@lists.bufferbloat.net> on behalf of Marc Blanchet via Starlink <starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, September 13, 2023 2:32 PM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Starlink] SpaceX no longer taking losses to produce Starlink satellite antennas, a key step to improving profitability</font>
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<div style="line-break:after-white-space">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
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<div>Le 13 sept. 2023 à 17:28, Larry Press via Starlink <starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net> a écrit :</div>
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The US price is $599, but the price varies from country to country. They sell for as low as $117.84:
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<div class="x_ContentPasted0">Elon Musk said the prices would be uniform throughout the world originally, but affordability-based pricing was inevitable:</div>
<div class="x_ContentPasted0"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://circleid.com/posts/20220906-spacex-introduces-affordability-based-starlink-pricing__;!!P7nkOOY!oOD--sSuHrmf_73Crf5At7ibwEnUvvr_BnBga3LKLsW9IbjdwLkVjzepTlfzFgwYB7SI9t05gRzrhKVpPEOMAQk52Q$">https://circleid.com/posts/20220906-spacex-introduces-affordability-based-starlink-pricing</a></div>
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<font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt"><b>From:</b><span class="x_Apple-converted-space"> </span>Starlink <<a href="mailto:starlink-bounces@lists.bufferbloat.net">starlink-bounces@lists.bufferbloat.net</a>> on behalf of the keyboard of geoff
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<b>Subject:</b><span class="x_Apple-converted-space"> </span>[Starlink] SpaceX no longer taking losses to produce Starlink satellite antennas, a key step to improving profitability</font>
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<li>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.</li><li>“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
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