During a keynote address at the Mobile World Congress, taking place in Barcelona, Spain this week, Elon Musk offered an update on SpaceX’s Starlink satellite broadband service. Citing the service as “[f]illing in the gaps between 5G and fiber,” Musk…
It has been an unusually hot summer already, especially in the west. That heatwave is giving some SpaceX Starlink users some real trouble, in the form “thermal shutdowns,” where users are losing their internet connections from the satellite broadband service….
The FCC announced yesterday that it has approved eligible telecommunications carrier (ETC) designation for 56 companies that had winning bids in the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) auction. ETC designation is a requirement for participation in the RDOF program. Among…
Google Cloud and SpaceX are partnering to deliver data, cloud services and applications to customers at the edge of the network. The new capabilities are expected to be available in the second half of this year. The announcement comes only…
Allowing the 12 GHz spectrum band to be used for 5G could yield as much as $1 trillion in economic benefits, according to a new report from the Brattle Group. The Brattle Group analysis draws on technical research conducted by…
U.S. subscribers using Space X’s Starlink non-geostationary satellite broadband service experienced median download speeds between 40 and 93 Mbps in the first quarter of 2021, according to tests conducted using Ookla’s speed test technology. Median latency for the service varied…
SpaceX launched its latest batch of satellites to operate the Starlink satellite broadband service yesterday. The company also revealed that it now has 500K pre-orders for the service, with prospective customers paying $99 each. Yesterday’s launch put 60 satellites in…
Space X is on a roll, at least at the FCC. The company received a favorable ruling yesterday, despite vehement opposition, that will likely improve the performance of its emerging Starlink satellite broadband service. The ruling is very technical and…
SpaceX’s Starlink service tends to get much of the attention in the next generation low earth orbit (LEO) satellite broadband movement. But not too far behind Starlink is Amazon Kuiper broadband service. Amazon Kuiper broadband service has many of the…
PCMag has identified the 253 counties in the United States that have the conditions that make them most likely to benefit from SpaceX’s Starlink satellite broadband network, which currently has limited coverage. According to the site’s “common sense” selection criteria,…
Students in K-12 schools in Hyde and Swain counties in North Carolina soon will get satellite broadband as the latest of several SpaceX Starlink pilots. The Satellite Internet Technologies for Student Connectivity Pilot initiative is funded by $200,000 in CARES…
SpaceX’s Starlink satellite broadband service has the potential to be a game changer for rural broadband, according to an analysis by PCMag of Starlink speeds. The analysis is based on beta tester data exclusively provided to it by Ookla Speedtest….
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