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. ________________________________ From: Starlink on behalf of Marc Blanchet via Starlink Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2023 2:32 PM To: Starlink Subject: Re: [Starlink] SpaceX no longer taking losses to produce Starlink satellite antennas, a key step to improving profitability 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 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 > on behalf of the keyboard of geoff goodfellow via Starlink > Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2023 10:04 AM To: Starlink > 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 -- Geoff.Goodfellow@iconia.com living as The Truth is True _______________________________________________ Starlink mailing list Starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/starlink