{"id":23152,"date":"2020-11-13T17:31:11","date_gmt":"2020-11-13T09:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/analysts-believe-spacex-is-greatly-subsidizing-the-starlink-starter-kit-cost\/"},"modified":"2020-11-13T17:31:11","modified_gmt":"2020-11-13T09:31:11","slug":"analysts-believe-spacex-is-greatly-subsidizing-the-starlink-starter-kit-cost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/analysts-believe-spacex-is-greatly-subsidizing-the-starlink-starter-kit-cost\/","title":{"rendered":"Analysts believe SpaceX is greatly subsidizing the Starlink starter kit cost"},"content":{"rendered":"
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SpaceX\u2019s Starlink has been in the news quite a bit lately. Beta users of the service have finally gotten their hands on the starter kits and have been able to test them in the real world. But the one thing that has stood out the most seems to be the cost of the starter kit.<\/p>\n

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Currently, Starlink\u2019s starter kit\u2019s cost is $499, definitely not cheap to gain access to the internet. That cost motivated two satellite-communications industry consultants to look into what it likely costs SpaceX to manufacture the starter kits.<\/p>\n

The two consultants told Business Insider<\/em> that they weren\u2019t the least bit surprised with SpaceX\u2019s struggle to get the cost of these kits down. In fact, they claimed that SpaceX is likely subsidizing the cost to users by $1,000 to $2,000 per kit. They also said that SpaceX would need \u201ctens of thousands of customers before you got those subsidies down to $1,000 or less.\u201d Elon Musk has also stated that reducing the cost of the starter kits has proven very difficult. <\/p>\n

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