The US Federal Communications Commission has approved billionaire Elon Musk’s SpaceX to use its StarLink satellite Internet network with moving vehicles, giving the company the green light to offer broadband services to commercial airlines, cargo ships and Trucks expand.
Starlink, a rapidly growing network of broadcast satellites, has long sought to expand its customer base from broadband users in underserved rural areas to corporate customers in the automotive, shipping and aviation sectors.
The company’s approval of a new class of stations for the SpaceX satellite system expands the capabilities of broadband technology to meet growing needs, the committee said in the text of the license granted to the company and released Thursday. The number of users who now need an Internet connection on the go.”
SpaceX has launched about 2,700 StarLink satellites into low-Earth orbit since 2019, welcoming hundreds of thousands of subscribers, many of whom pay $110 a month for broadband Internet.
Competition in the NEO satellite segment is fierce between SpaceX, satellite operator OneWeb, and Jeff Bezos’ Kuiper Project, a unit of e-commerce giant Amazon.
Source: Lebanon Debate
