I’m on mobile so I’m not going to bother with that style of formatting. Its not basic economics, because few if any reputable service providers sway as hard and as quickly. All the related companies lean into introductory pricing strategy, but there’s a right way and a wrong way to do the raises. Infrequent steady raises keep from forming a lingering bad taste from the consumer, while prices that swing literally look like desperation and unreliability. If your bill feel like a rodeo for a fixed service amount, that’s a shit feeling that breeds anything but loyalty.

Ehh I wouldn’t say people aren’t going back to Hughsnet… there’s plenty of ma and pa blue hairs that go in and then out once the prices went up. These are people that barely check their email let alone surf/work online. that Many sublink sub users are paying to have the trenching done for cables to be run from the main arteries as they become available in their areas, if not getting it ran for free or just getting cellular internet provider thats subsidized through the rural internet program.

He was in fact quite angry over the lack of rural internet program money and would sue if they had a leg to stand on. Bear in mind He basically went to twitter threatening to cut off Ukrainian access to Starlink before he even contacted the feds and asked for payment. He’ll take any route that will bear fruit and he’s hardly afraid of stepping on toes. He’s suing Wachtell right now and that’s got near zero chance of standing any ground…

I really doubt they had any designs ready manufacture for a starship launched versions due to internals delays of starship and with V1 having so many problems/revisions. They move in a very fast way and few starship things are truly finalized IE “over 1000 changes made”.

They exist to make money on a temporary problem with a demographic louder than it is big. Its just business.