Starlink cuts satellite dish price from $600 to $300 in excess-capacity areas

The $600 standard price was replaced with regional pricing of $500 or $300.

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[KaprJarda]

Starlink seems to be doing pretty well if they managed to get their terminal production cost under $500. Realistically speaking the terminal cost is the greatest hurdle in getting more customers. Also, if they manage to get the production costs under $300 (that's what Iridium terminal costs now) they can also aggressively gobble up the GEO customer base if they want. After all, if the terminal cost is low enough, nothing prevents them from providing some truly low-cost limited plans that would still be better than what GEO could offer in all metrics (since marginal costs for customers with low bandwidth are minimal).

 

[KaprJarda]

They chop this stuff up so fine. Have an address in Oregon that we would like the service but it gets a sales savings for being low congestion...but no savings on monthly for being low congestion. How does that make any sense?

I guess they expect the user count to rise soon (so it will get removed from both savings), but it's still too low so it needs a bit of a boost. At least that is the only reason that would make sense. Of course it's also possible that someone just forgot to add it to (or remove it from) one of the lists.