Starlink : Markets and Marketing

[OceanCat]

Starlink is now providing high-speed internet to more than 400k active Canadian customers, connecting ~3% of homes across the country!

[matthewkantar]

Starlink is now providing high-speed internet to more than 400k active Canadian customers, connecting ~3% of homes across the country!

Thats around a half billion dollars a year, one quarter of Canada's trade deficit of 1.9 billion dollars in 2023. The number does vary widely, in 2022 Canada had a ~20 billion dollar surplus.

[RedLineTrain]

Taxation is undesirable, but SpaceX now has the ability to suck vast sums of money out of almost every economy on the planet. Though theoretically having universal internet access will bring money back in, Starlink May be viewed by politicians as an economic vampire.

Edit: The balance of humanity may view politicians as economic vampires, your results may vary.

I don't think providing a valid, voluntary service to people, for a price ... is anything like  "sucking vast sums of money" out of an economy.    The scale of paying for starlink's service isn't very large in terms of almost all economies

I agree with the general sentiment.  That said, Indonesia is probably Vanuatu writ large.  There seems to have been quite vocal criticism from the local ISPs.  It's a bit surprising that Starlink was approved in Indonesia.  Seems likely that Indonesia will end up being Starlink's second largest market.

[RedLineTrain]

It appears that Starlink has received landing rights in Bhutan.

Tshering Tobgay @tsheringtobgay
Welcome to Bhutan! @Starlink

https://twitter.com/tsheringtobgay/status/1816706460656800099