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Amazon sold a dollar for 90 cents for 20 years, and I don't see anyone laughing now. It's not a bad business model for a massive fixed cost but minimal margina

• justapassenger 3y ago
  It does have minimal marginal cost, as long as you live in the right place on earth, without many other customers next to you. Once you exceed, fairly limited amount of people that can use it one cell, you need to grow massively your fixed cost, as you need to grow the whole constellation or just won't be able to grow. Time will tell if that will add up. I don't think it's obvious it will.
  • Breza 3y ago
    You nailed a big difference between Starlink and Amazon: if all my neighbors become heavy users of Amazon, Amazon becomes more profitable.
• LargeTomato 3y ago
  The starlink satellites decay after 5 years. The constellation costs $40B. That's an $8B annual burn rate just to maintain the current constellation.
  • inemesitaffia 3y ago
    Where did you get this $40 billion idea?