Re: [Starlink] 69,000 Users

[David Lang <david@lang.hm>]

I think that was 69k simultanious users

dishy production cost is currently down to ~$1k/unit (I've heard that it was 
~$3k/unit for the first ones)

But the long term upside if they can pull it off is a license to print money, 
I've seen speculation that it's on the order of 30B/year when fully built

David Lang

On Tue, 29 Jun 2021, Daniel AJ Sokolov wrote:

> Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2021 19:00:32 -0700
> From: Daniel AJ Sokolov <daniel@sokolov.eu.org>
> To: starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net
> Subject: [Starlink] 69,000 Users
> 
> Starlink currently has 69,000 User, according to what Elon Musk said 
> today at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
>
> In a year, he wants to have 500,000 users.
>
> He expects having to invest 25 to 30 billion US-Dollars to fully build 
> Starlink.
>
> Each Dishy costs Starlink about double the current purchase price. 
> However, they want to reduce the production cost to "a few hundred 
> dollars" - which is why they are working on their own factory in Texas.
>
> FYI
> Daniel
>
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