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by ctdonath 1871 days ago
Agreed. It was an attempt to take the issue as raised and see what the consequential ballpark numbers are.
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Yeah sorry I wasn't trying to call you out just point out an additional complexity to the numbers. If Starlink was going to sell an "slot" to a competitor (not that they would need to), they'd be selling an orbital plane rather than a single satellite's position. The cost of that plane wouldn't be some fixed value but the gross revenue from all the subscribes covered by that plane.

The planes that cover mostly empty ocean would be far less valuable than ones that covered subscriber-dense populations. But of course that's in a world where somehow a competitor needs to buy a "slot" from Starlink and not just orbit a few miles higher in the same plane.