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    Starlink erhebt eine monatliche Hardwaregebühr von 10 US-Dollar, um einmalige Einkäufe zu vermeiden

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    2. absentmindedjwc on

      If I had to guess, just more bullshit for the SpaceX IPO.

      They’re going to claim that they have `revenue+(customers * 120)` in revenue

    3. invyros on

      > The Starlink division already accounted for $3.26 billion of SpaceX’s company-wide revenue of $4.69 billion in the first three months of 2026.

      Now, these are the revenue figures of a trillion+ dollar company /s

      Yeah yeah, „growth“.

    5. Iyellkhan on

      that smells of desperation. maybe large investors are actually hesitating over the nonsense in the space x ipo prospectus

    6. ElysiumSprouts on

      There are relic stories of the elderly renting their landlines phone from the phone company decades past the era of cheap readily available alternatives. People spending hundreds and hundreds of dollars over the years for a $15 device.

    8. PerfectKale1970 on

      disrupting the cable industry by doing exactly what cable companies do

    9. CivilWards on

      I wish there was a viable alternative for Starlink for the purpose that it serves but there really isn’t

    10. Due-Farmer-9191 on

      Wait… so the one I bought and paid for. Now all of a sudden has a rental charge?

    13. RadzimierzWozniak on

      How is that different from just rising the cost of the plan? 

      SpaceX has a lot of leverage because starlink is the only service like this.   Nothing else can offer a fiber like quality without a fiber 

    15. _Aj_ on

      > We did not see any option to buy hardware in the Starlink sign-up page today, but the support article said it is possible to switch from renting to buying. “If you are a current Starlink customer with the rent Starlink option and would like to purchase your kit, create a support ticket,” the support article said. Starlink kits are also sold by retailers  

      So looks like they want to offer a „rent first“ model to remove that entry barrier, but purchase is still possible via multiple methods if you’re keen to throw 500 bucks at them right now 

    16. Super_flywhiteguy on

      I guess I feel better about grabbing a SL mini for $299 and just let it sit collecting dust until I plan to use it

    18. Opie045 on

      Needs to justify his 1.7T company somehow. Can’t be propped up by anthropic and Google renting for a little bit.

    19. RustyWinger on

      Oh boy. That means they are going to “obsolete” my current hardware at some point.

    20. wildcarde815 on

      so the first screw has dropped on people actually having to pay the true cost of this bullshit.

    22. tinBalloon on

      As they say, take care of the $10 and the $Tn will look after themselves.

    23. nntb on

      I don’t see what the big deal is I mean even if you own the hardware you don’t get free service right you still need to have a subscription to use it?

    24. Delicious_Weekend546 on

      Ah yes, the classic Silicon Valley lifecycle: disrupt → gain market share → become the thing you disrupted

    26. RollingCarrot615 on

      Isn’t it illegal in some states, if not all to force customers to pay for a rental device they need to obtain the service?

    27. ToolTimeT on

      as the space x ipo fails and then loses value expect this trend to continue.

    28. LeftLiner on

      So $55 a month for 100/100 plus $10 a month for the hardware plus a one time fee of $199?

      I know this service is mainly targeting people who have no other options open to them but are these prices normal in the US? Because it sounds very, very expensive.

    29. AlternativePizza3391 on

      They sell you a dish, and affordable service and then slowly jack up the rates and tac on fees until it becomes a paper weight. Thats what happened to my starlink

      If you cut the service off and try to turn it on, they charge you a congestion fee. If you pause the service they charged a low monthly fee, which they have now doubled. They jacked up the cost by a huge margin for the regular residential service

      They claimed it was unlimited but now block people and stop the service if you use too much, demanding you switch to business plans. Its shit

    30. ViolentCrumble on

      I got my hardware free lol was a customer for a little over a year and then cancelled when I got proper fiber. The difference is night and day but Starlink was really really good vs the alternative. It’s way better than the standard 100mb plan but I’m on 2000 now and it’s way faster and very low ping.

      But glad I didn’t pay for the hardware and now it just sits there. It came in handy when we moved. I was able to set it up and reconnect our internet in half hour while waiting for the fiber install. So I’ll just keep it as a spare in emergencies I guess

    31. BrShrimp on

      God I wish there was real competition in the LEO ISP market so I could dump this provider.

    32. MainliningSkittles on

      In the last three months they’ve halved my speed along with a €1 price drop to make it seem like they care, then 2 months later increased the price to €55 per month. The enshittification has started and who knows what the new shareholders will demand. I’m moving to another service next week (fibre broadband recently became available in my area. 

    33. archontwo on

      Not to put too fine a point on it, but SpaceX and starlink are not as ‚profitable ‚ as Musk likes to say.

       In fact if it wasn’t for some [creative accounting and sponsorship by the MICC](https://spacenews.com/pentagons-commercial-satellite-internet-services-program-soars-to-13-billion/), it would probably have cratered years back. 

      Its good having a [pocket president to fall back on.](https://www.vanityfair.com/story/elon-musk-donald-trump-jr-rocket-barons-space-x-ipo)

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