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 $117.84: > https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/d/1tuhyh6kbyDQ2D418ug_AgS1ZM_8MDDznrjWzDthU61w/htmlview#gid=0 > > Elon Musk said the prices would be uniform throughout the world originally, > but affordability-based pricing was inevitable: > https://circleid.com/posts/20220906-spacex-introduces-affordability-based-starlink-pricing > > From: Starlink <starlink-boun...@lists.bufferbloat.net > <mailto:starlink-boun...@lists.bufferbloat.net>> on behalf of the keyboard of > geoff goodfellow via Starlink <starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net > <mailto:starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net>> > Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2023 10:04 AM > To: Starlink <Starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net > <mailto:Starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net>> > Subject: [Starlink] SpaceX no longer taking losses to produce Starlink > satellite antennas, a key step to improving profitability > > SpaceX is no longer absorbing the cost of the Starlink antennas that it sells > with its satellite internet service, a company executive said on Wednesday. > “We were subsidizing terminals but we’ve been iterating on our terminal > production so much that we’re no longer subsidizing terminals, which is a > good place to be,” Jonathan Hofeller, SpaceX vice president of Starlink and > commercial sales, said during a panel at the World Satellite Business Week > conference. > [...] > https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/13/spacex-no-longer-taking-losses-to-produce-starlink-satellite-antennas.html > > <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/13/spacex-no-longer-taking-losses-to-produce-starlink-satellite-antennas.html__;!!P7nkOOY!tLx-DvlYoMFEHWILTwTEjXe919tmu22sMGNWBFtdz6JNM-QmAZP3fqcLbdBQImtVy_xFmWzeu8qJjeEIwfZlMVyyiQ$> > > -- > geoff.goodfel...@iconia.com <mailto:geoff.goodfel...@iconia.com> > living as The Truth is True > > _______________________________________________ > Starlink mailing list > Starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net <mailto:Starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net> > https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/starlink
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