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@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@lists.bufferbloat.net> on behalf of the keyboard of geoff goodfellow via Starlink <starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net>
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Subject: [Starlink] SpaceX no longer taking losses to produce Starlink satellite antennas, a key step to improving profitability
 
  • 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.
[...]
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/13/spacex-no-longer-taking-losses-to-produce-starlink-satellite-antennas.html

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