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Most people probably won't buy the terminal outright, though, I expect? You'll just buy a Starlink subscription with a fixed initial term and they'll lease you
by stupidcar 7y ago
Most people probably won't buy the terminal outright, though, I expect? You'll just buy a Starlink subscription with a fixed initial term and they'll lease you the terminal as part of that.
- toomuchtodo 7y agoPeople pay $1000 for an iPhone. I don’t think $200 upfront is onerous.
- Kye 7y agoPeople in areas this is meant for don't pay $1000 for iPhones.
- gpm 7y agoAirplanes, cruise ships, ski (and other) resorts, rich hermits, expensive summer camps, consumer trains, etc all do. For lots of commercial activities a thousand dollars is a rounding error compared to the costs of their other equipment too.
- oh_sigh 7y agoNo, but they don't need to each buy one - they can pool their money and have one receiver for an entire village, and that may be much better than what they have now, which is either nothing or spotty 3g access