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Everyone is super excited about this and I am sure its going to capture a significant market, but you have to realise what are alternatives and how much they cost.

I expect them to be utterly unaffordable at least for first half of decade.

Their biggest competitor is Iridium which offer similar service at $150 per 2kbps. I will let you extrapolate real life prices from here.




Iridium is not their competitor. Different market. Even the CEO of the company said so.


Sure, terminals are likely to be different, but service is the same. I don't see enough differences between two.


SpaceX should be able to undercut that some since they can launch their satellites at cost and using a booster that's already been up once or twice really brings that cost down.


Sure, but why would they undercut them by 6-7 orders of magnitude in price? Seems silly to just leave money on the table.


Bigger less profitable userbase vs larger more profitable user base. The question is if the bigger userbase option is big enough to make overall profits larger than they would have been with the smaller one. I have no idea.




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