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Wow! Who do they think they are to ask for such ridiculous prices, Splunk?

zamadatix 3y ago
I assume this is for dedicated unshared bandwidth with no cap since it's for ISP. If that's the case, if it uses the average of one satellite that's 3+ million SpaceX needs to gather to break even (not counting the cost of operations or equipment itself). As far as cost competitiveness installing and maintaining an undersea cable is a worse deal (though preferable if you can afford it). Overall the prices don't shout "ridiculous!" to me by either measure. It actually seems pretty cost competitive and probably not full of 1000% margin or something. Via another comparison it's a 10x increase vs 1 TB of priority data @40 mbps (250/m) but that's actually a good value considering this is @1000 mbps with no cap. Shooting 10 Gbps (10x cost) to the island, for example, is likely to cost a bit more than it would have to have the island's population all by Starlink individually but they'll get significantly better service as a result. This is something that's only viable for pocket areas in remote locations though, particularly islands. Dense areas or plain rural areas fit either normal connectivity or traditional Starlink better.
- mr_toad 3y ago
  > This is something that's only viable for pocket areas in remote locations though, particularly islands. Sounds like it would be suitable for military bases and isolated infrastructure (like power plants).
  - pests 3y ago
    Won't power plants already have connectivity though? They have to send the power somewhere in the end anyways.
  - AtlasBarfed 3y ago
    Are we pretending all of Asia and Africa and Australia and South America are swimming in bandwidth?
  - zamadatix 3y ago
    Military yes, power plants depends more on whether they really need multiple gigabits per second dedicated bandwidth with a million dollar receiving station or they are fine with the bandwidth provided by more traditional style terminals.
  - a_bonobo 3y ago
    would also be very feasible for rich people's boats; these are often remote, and Starlink is already focused very much on that market. A lot of customers who'd easily have 75k flying around.
    - BlindEyeHalo 3y ago
      This is for ground stations only.
BonoboIO 3y ago
Oracle enters the room

I assume this is for dedicated unshared bandwidth with no cap since it's for ISP. If that's the case, if it uses the average of one satellite that's 3+ million SpaceX needs to gather to break even (not counting the cost of operations or equipment itself). As far as cost competitiveness installing and maintaining an undersea cable is a worse deal (though preferable if you can afford it). Overall the prices don't shout "ridiculous!" to me by either measure. It actually seems pretty cost competitive and probably not full of 1000% margin or something. Via another comparison it's a 10x increase vs 1 TB of priority data @40 mbps (250/m) but that's actually a good value considering this is @1000 mbps with no cap. Shooting 10 Gbps (10x cost) to the island, for example, is likely to cost a bit more than it would have to have the island's population all by Starlink individually but they'll get significantly better service as a result. This is something that's only viable for pocket areas in remote locations though, particularly islands. Dense areas or plain rural areas fit either normal connectivity or traditional Starlink better.

mr_toad 3y ago
> This is something that's only viable for pocket areas in remote locations though, particularly islands. Sounds like it would be suitable for military bases and isolated infrastructure (like power plants).
- pests 3y ago
  Won't power plants already have connectivity though? They have to send the power somewhere in the end anyways.
- AtlasBarfed 3y ago
  Are we pretending all of Asia and Africa and Australia and South America are swimming in bandwidth?
- zamadatix 3y ago
  Military yes, power plants depends more on whether they really need multiple gigabits per second dedicated bandwidth with a million dollar receiving station or they are fine with the bandwidth provided by more traditional style terminals.
- a_bonobo 3y ago
  would also be very feasible for rich people's boats; these are often remote, and Starlink is already focused very much on that market. A lot of customers who'd easily have 75k flying around.
  - BlindEyeHalo 3y ago
    This is for ground stations only.

BonoboIO 3y ago

Oracle enters the room