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[–] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

If you’re referring to the dish purchase, they’re free these days. But even so, when your competitor is $200-500 upfront for a latent multi hop WISP topping out at 30 or 50mbps for $100 per month, a solid 300mbps for $130 and $1000 for a dish is cheap

[–] CombatWombat@feddit.online 1 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

No I mean the $1500 monthly demand surcharge that is the subject of the article you're commenting under:

SpaceX is now charging some users so-called "demand surcharges" of up to $1,500