SpaceX announced that Starlink passed the 2 million subscriber mark on Sept. 23, 2023.
Starlink is available on all 7 continents, in over 60 countries and many more markets, connecting 2M+ active customers and counting with high-speed internet!
Thank you to all of our customers around the world 🛰️🌎❤️ → https://t.co/D6L8BSisQq pic.twitter.com/jVfWTEfHkz
— Starlink (@Starlink) September 23, 2023
This is up from 1.5 million on May 6, 2023.
Thank you to our 1.5M+ customers around the world! 🛰️🌎❤️ pic.twitter.com/SDEyQ3RB5i
— Starlink (@Starlink) May 6, 2023
This was adding about 120,000 per month.
SpaceX needs to ramp up a new Starlink dish factory. This will enable SpaceX to provide 500,000 or more dishes per month. This is critical to ramping up Starlink customers. There is enough Starlink satellite bandwidth capacity now for 10-20 million global customers. Starlink needs to get the dishes out to European and Asian customers so that the global capacity can be used.
Here is a SHORT video version of the SpaceX Starlink site I recently visited in Bastrop, Texas!
This is a new construction project nearing completion and is both a 521,000 Sq Ft (~48,400 Sq m) warehouse and Starlink Ground equipment/dish factory.
Full 4K narrated video… pic.twitter.com/6HPNsCMNWQ
— Joe Tegtmeyer 🚀 🤠😎 (@JoeTegtmeyer) August 15, 2023
How about a SHORT video of my drone flight over the new SpaceX Starlink facility near Bastrop Texas? @SpaceX is also hiring, with over 100 positions open right now! Check it out at this link:https://t.co/USmJHLV52f pic.twitter.com/KGrqegqLyw
— Joe Tegtmeyer 🚀 🤠😎 (@JoeTegtmeyer) September 26, 2023
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The price varies by country. In USA I see 120 USD pr month. In Denmark its 68 USD. In Niger its 48.
https://www.starlink.com/map
A lot of the world is still unknown service date (mainly middle east), or not scheduled to start until sometime in 2024 (Africa)
Star link reported 1,4 billion in revenue in 2022, and a slight deficit, so it will be interesting to see in 2024.
Even at the low end it’s still far too expensive for what it delivers, at least to scale globally. £30 will get you gigabit fibre in the UK. Why would you ever get Starlink for anything other than filling the gap before the fibre comes to your area?
In Thailand I pay 25 usd for fiber 500/500 MBit internet.
I’m having 200 ms latency to europe though, and I would pay more to get that down.
(is there any comparison on starlink vs fiber latency on 5000+ km distance?)
Also, you don’t have to get very far from the population centers before there is only one crappy provider.
Too bad Thailand is still mulling it over.
You do realise that is roughly 3 billion in income per year.
Yeah, that’s the number I came up with. SpaceX has estimated that they will eventually reach between $20 B – $30 B/yr revenue.