Starlink's Capacity Growth Is Letting it Lower its Prices: Mach33
As SpaceX increases its Starlink data capacity, it will become directly competitive with fiber and cable on price, space finance group Mach33 wrote Wednesday. Starlink cutting its monthly fees for the first year in some states shows how prices will…
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decline as capacity continues to outstrip demand, it added. There have been promotional price cuts for Starlink equipment, but the shift in August and September, with the introductory service price cuts, reflects growing slack in the network, Mach33 said. The promos today are localized and time-limited, "but they preview tomorrow's baselines." As the next generation of Starlinks drive capacity surpluses, "regional discounts evolve into global price cuts," it added.