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马斯克表示，可能需要300亿美元来保持星链在轨道上运行
他在没有透露细节的情况下还表示，Starlink“与主要国家的电信公司有两个相当重要的合作伙伴关系”，可以帮助SpaceX的部门填补第五代移动和蜂窝网络的空白。
巴塞罗那:亿万富翁企业家Elon Musk周二说他的我们卫星互联网当时Venture增长迅速，他预计该业务的总投资成本在200亿至300亿美元之间。
在没有透露细节的情况下，他还表示Starlink“与主要国家的电信公司有两个相当重要的合作伙伴关系”，这可能有助于中国的发展SpaceX公司事业部填补了第五代移动和蜂窝网络的空白。
的特斯拉公司SpaceX的首席执行官兼创始人表示，在Starlink实现完全正的现金流之前，投资成本将达到50 - 100亿美元。SpaceX是一家寻求殖民火星的火箭飞船企业。
马斯克说，Starlink是一组提供高速、低延迟连接的低轨卫星，已经在提供试验服务，目标是从8月开始覆盖除北极和南极以外的世界。
它拥有1500多颗高空卫星，在大约12个国家运行，而且每个月都在增加。马斯克预测，未来12个月，该公司的客户总数将从目前的6.9万增至50万。
一些分析人士质疑卫星互联网是否能成为一种可行的商业模式，因为它主要针对偏远地区，那里可能没有足够多的人能够支付高昂的资费来收回投资成本。
TMF Associates总裁、分析师蒂姆·法勒(Tim Farrar)说，Starlink需要数百万订阅者每月支付约99美元，才能在一年内收回50亿美元的投资。
他说，在10年内投资300亿美元并不需要用户大幅增加，但要实现马斯克2020年年收入约300亿美元的预测，就需要数千万用户。
“埃隆越是吹嘘他将投资数百亿美元，其他人就越难做到。显然，这是马斯克的主要目标:限制竞争。”
星链面临来自Amazon.com Inc .)一家倒闭的卫星运营商，由英国政府和印度Bharti集团以及Telesat和其他一些公司救助。
PP Foresight分析师保罗•佩斯卡托雷(Paolo Pescatore)表示，Starlink需要规模，以降低成本:“因此需要与电信运营商合作。”
埃隆·马斯克(Elon Musk)将把“星链”的进展吹捧为成本和需求障碍
熟悉星链计划的人士表示，如果这项服务取得成功，它可能会极大地扩大全球宽带互联网的覆盖范围，连接特斯拉汽车，甚至为交易员和其他有特殊互联网需求的人提供一个新的平台。
伙伴关系
马斯克表示，他正在与潜在的合作伙伴进行谈判，因为许多国家都要求运营商将提供农村覆盖作为获得5G牌照的条件。
他还表示，如果电信运营商在偏远地区有蜂窝基站，他们可以使用Starlink连接到核心网络。
无线和地面宽带的迅速普及，以及高昂的价格，是扼杀之前低地球轨道卫星项目的重要因素。
马斯克表示，星链以半价出售终端，并补充说，他预计在未来12个月内将终端成本从1000多美元降至300-500美元。
他说:“如果我们成功地避免破产，那就太好了，我们可以继续前进。”
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<\/figure>By Supantha Mukherjee and Clara-Laeila Laudette<\/strong>
BARCELONA: Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk<\/a> said on Tuesday that his Starlink<\/a> satellite internet<\/a> venture was growing quickly as he forecast total investment costs in the business at between $20 billion and $30 billion.
Without disclosing details, he also said Starlink has \"two quite significant partnerships with major country telcos\" that could help the SpaceX<\/a> division plug gaps in fifth-generation mobile and cellular networks.
The Tesla Inc<\/a> CEO and founder of SpaceX, a rocket ship venture that seeks to colonise Mars, said investment costs before Starlink achieves fully positive cash flow would be $5-$10 billion.
<\/div><\/div>\"It's a lot, basically,\" Musk said in a video interview from California with the Mobile World Congress<\/a>, the telecoms industry's largest annual gathering, which is being held in Barcelona.
Starlink, an array of low-orbit satellites offering high-speed, low-latency connectivity, is already offering a trial service and aims to cover the world, except for the north and south poles, starting in August, Musk said.
It has more than 1,500 satellites aloft and is operating in about a dozen countries, adding more every month. Musk forecast total customer numbers would reach half a million over the next 12 months, from 69,000 now.
Some analysts question whether satellite internet can be a viable business model because it mainly targets remote areas, where there may not be enough people able to pay the high tariffs needed to recoup the investment costs.
Starlink would need a few million subscribers paying about $99 a month each to recoup a $5 billion investment in a year's time, said analyst Tim Farrar, president of TMF Associates.
A $30 billion investment over a decade would not require a dramatic rise in subscribers, but to achieve Musk's 2020 projection of roughly $30 billion revenue a year would require tens of millions of subscribers, he said.
Starlink, an array of low-orbit satellites offering high-speed, low-latency connectivity, is already offering a trial service and aims to cover the world, except for the north and south poles, starting in August, Musk said.
It has more than 1,500 satellites aloft and is operating in about a dozen countries, adding more every month. Musk forecast total customer numbers would reach half a million over the next 12 months, from 69,000 now.
Some analysts question whether satellite internet can be a viable business model because it mainly targets remote areas, where there may not be enough people able to pay the high tariffs needed to recoup the investment costs.
Starlink would need a few million subscribers paying about $99 a month each to recoup a $5 billion investment in a year's time, said analyst Tim Farrar, president of TMF Associates.
A $30 billion investment over a decade would not require a dramatic rise in subscribers, but to achieve Musk's 2020 projection of roughly $30 billion revenue a year would require tens of millions of subscribers, he said.
<\/div><\/div>\"It is not implausible to get this number (a few million) to make the system not to go bankrupt. But this is not enough to justify the valuation of SpaceX,\" he said.
\"The more Elon talks up that he is going to invest tens of billions, the harder it becomes for other people. Obviously, that's the big part of Musk's objective: to limit competition.\"
Starlink faces competition from Amazon.com Inc<\/a> subsidiary Kuiper, OneWeb - a collapsed satellite operator rescued by the British government and India's Bharti Group, as well as Telesat and a number of others.
Paolo Pescatore, an analyst at PP Foresight, said Starlink needed scale which would lower costs: \"hence the need to partner with telcos.\"
\"The more Elon talks up that he is going to invest tens of billions, the harder it becomes for other people. Obviously, that's the big part of Musk's objective: to limit competition.\"
Starlink faces competition from Amazon.com Inc<\/a> subsidiary Kuiper, OneWeb - a collapsed satellite operator rescued by the British government and India's Bharti Group, as well as Telesat and a number of others.
Paolo Pescatore, an analyst at PP Foresight, said Starlink needed scale which would lower costs: \"hence the need to partner with telcos.\"