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‘Good news for internet users’: Elon Musk’s Starlink gets approval for satellites closer to Earth – Sydney Morning Herald
The technology, unproven at such scale, could potentially bridge the long-standing city-rural digital divide on internet broadband in Australia, the US and elsewhere….
Starlink is among a handful of newly formed companies, including OneWeb and Amazon-backed Kuiper, that are offering broadband distributed by satellites in low-Earth-orbit. The technology, unproven at such scale, could potentially bridge the long-standing city-rural digital divide in Australia, the US and elsewhere. Australia has an estimated 2 million people who lack internet access at home.
Satellite-based broadband is made possible by combining existing technologies together in new ways. Starlink…
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