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Re:SpaceX Is Raising $500M at a $30.5B Valuation by jononor on Tuesday December 18, 2018 @03:49PM (#18710393)
You are estimating the average Starlink customer at 1000 USD/year? That seems significantly above average mobile and landline Internet fees, so it would seem hard to acquire 20 million customers while competing with those?
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Re:SpaceX Is Raising $500M at a $30.5B Valuation by jononor on Tuesday December 18, 2018 @07:14PM (#18711845)
The average cost in US for land-line Internet seems to be 66USD, and is among the highest in the world. Source: https://howmuch.net/articles/cost-of-broadband-internet

Apparently the average phone bill is 80USD/month. Again some of the highest in the world. https://www.moneysavingpro.com/cell-phone-plans/comparing-us...

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Re:SpaceX Is Raising $500M at a $30.5B Valuation by garmaine on Tuesday December 18, 2018 @04:00PM (#18710512)
“Basic” cable internet where I am is $90/mo, after the initial contract runs out. That’s $1000/yr.
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Re:SpaceX Is Raising $500M at a $30.5B Valuation by awesomepeter on Tuesday December 18, 2018 @05:35PM (#18711241)
Where I am 150MB/s fiber internet is for ~$12 a month :)

edit: what I was going for is, you can't take that number and extrapolate it to the whole world

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