4 million users.
That works out to more than $1,000 per customer.
I wonder if individual merchants and corporations have to pay Starlink for access to customers?
It’s $1000 for 1TB and $5000 a month for 5 terabyte commercial mobile access. Think private jets, airlines, cruise ships have multiple terminals, oil rigs, the yachtee class too. Then think American Airlines just signed up every jet they have. Elon is making bank off the biz users. Alaska Air and there new Hawaiian Airlines also. Air France too. It’s a no brainer $5000 a month per jet and you can charge ten bucks a seat per flight. I think American is giving it away for now as a promo.
https://www.starlink.com/service-plans/all
The DOD also is using commercial terminals for God knows how much tax $$$$ each. Starlink is world changing technology.
Right now people in NC are completely cut off by road only aircraft can reach Asheville they have no power, no cellphone service either. There are two Starlink minis set up at the PD and fire so not only can those first responders reach the outside world they opened them up to the public so they could call and text loved ones. The AT&T,Verizon ,T-Mobile completely down and will be down for weeks probably. Only sat phones work or Starlink, soon Starlink direct to cell will also allows regular phones to work when towers are down. They should set up a priority access protocol like FirstNet where that direct to cell access is prioritized for first responders and LEO in a disaster area where you can kick off user’s who don’t have the priority access codes.
The DOD is also having Elon launch Starshield their own dedicated network complete with intel,and imaging payloads too. Real time imagery from thousands of birds world wide and also ELINT data too. Nothing short of a paradigm shift.
it’s about $100/mon or $1200/yr... x 4m == $4.8b
and that’s not counting additional services (vpn, cloud, ad, etc)
$120/month X 12months/year = $144/year
$120/month X 12months/year = $1440/year