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Re:Google and AT&T invest in Starlink rival for satellite-to... by AnthonyMouse on Monday January 22, 2024 @03:55PM (#39095308)
> SpaceX is making about $10M allowing AST SpaceMobile to launch

$10M per launch. By comparison, Starlink has had over 100 launches:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Starlink_and_Starshiel...

AT&T doing the same number of launches would generate over $1B in profit.

And again, Starlink is already competing with land-based cellular networks, and so would AT&T. So the bulk of the AT&T satellite customers could come at the expense of other land-based cellular networks rather than Starlink -- Starlink has ~2M users compared to >140M for Verizon Wireless (much less carriers in other countries), so who are they really competing with?

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