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I love how they call out Starlink's $600 equipment cost but completely gloss over many a small-town fiber company that will charge $200 easy for an install (or more), and completely ignores ViaSat's $10/month equipment lease (or $300 prepaid but you don't own it) and Hughes $15/mo lease and $99 setup or $450 upfront payment for their dish.

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Did any of those companies win FCC rural development grants?

Why, yes, Hughes certainly did.

Yeah, well the obvious answer is that $200 < $600, so the line must be somewhere between $200 and $600.

Issue is starlink blows Hughes and viasat out the water on actual usefulness for internet. Only thing close or better is muni fiber

At the moment. Bandwidth will decline relentlessly as subscriber count increases.

And it will go up as more and probably better satellites are launched?

Probably not.

Hughes did not win in the 100Mbps category. you're comparing apples and oranges.

all of those numbers are less than starlink though?

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