From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.lang.hm (unknown [66.167.227.145]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ADH-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by lists.bufferbloat.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BEA523CB35 for ; Wed, 30 Jun 2021 01:24:43 -0400 (EDT) Received: from dlang-laptop.local (unknown [10.2.0.162]) by mail.lang.hm (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A241FD21A; Tue, 29 Jun 2021 22:24:42 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2021 22:24:37 -0700 (PDT) From: David Lang X-X-Sender: dlang@dlang-laptop To: Daniel AJ Sokolov cc: starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net In-Reply-To: <85542036-9ff8-75d2-438e-c86cc0c105d8@sokolov.eu.org> Message-ID: References: <85542036-9ff8-75d2-438e-c86cc0c105d8@sokolov.eu.org> User-Agent: Alpine 2.21.1 (DEB 209 2017-03-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Subject: Re: [Starlink] 69,000 Users X-BeenThere: starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: "Starlink has bufferbloat. Bad." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2021 05:24:43 -0000 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 > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Starlink mailing list > Starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net > https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/starlink >