The mesh of satellites favor the northern hemispheres, you have a much lower density in lower regions, so you could charge less for them.

And they could stop launching them if they don't see a supply, basically just matching their registration numbers and launching more when the bandwidth/users require it.

Those numbers seem to just be a target for an ideal completed system, not for it to become operational.

There are essentially no variable costs for the satellites, and since they will be in LEO, a satellite to supply rural US also supplies everywhere in India. So SpaceX can sell their services for $5/month (or less) to people in India and $50/month to people in the US. Everyone (within certain longitude bounds) is a possible customer.

At $10 billion to deploy and lets assume 5 years satellite lifetime and $1 billion a year to operate, this is $3 billion a year or $250 million / month. You would only need 5 million subscribers at $50 / month to break even.

Seriously. I’ll switch just so I don’t have to pay Comcast.

Now I just need some Tesla solar panels and a couple powerwalls, and betweeen that, a well, my septic system, I can cut every cable coming into my house.

Well, I do use natural gas for heating and I love my gas stove, but nearly there!

If only the receiver and the power requirements were small enough to fit in my cell phone!