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From: Larry Press <lpress@csudh.edu>
To: Starlink <Starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net>,
	the keyboard of geoff goodfellow <geoff@iconia.com>
Subject: Re: [Starlink] SpaceX no longer taking losses to produce Starlink satellite antennas, a key step to improving profitability
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2023 21:28:38 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <BYAPR03MB3863D7271DFDF04F3E0762A9C2F0A@BYAPR03MB3863.namprd03.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
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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:
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

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From: Starlink <starlink-bounces@lists.bufferbloat.net> on behalf of the keyboard of geoff goodfellow via Starlink <starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net>
Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2023 10:04 AM
To: Starlink <Starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net>
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.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-09-13 21:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-09-13 17:04 the keyboard of geoff goodfellow
2023-09-13 17:52 ` Inemesit Affia
2023-09-13 21:36   ` Ulrich Speidel
2023-09-13 21:59     ` Larry Press
2023-09-13 21:28 ` Larry Press [this message]
2023-09-13 21:32   ` Marc Blanchet
2023-09-13 21:39     ` Larry Press

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