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Starlink seeks key partnerships in India ahead of regulatory approval
2021-10-07 02:00:00| Total Telecom industry news
At the end of last month, SpaceX announced the appointment of Sanjay Bhargava as Starlink’s Country Director India, effective from October 1st. Bhargava had worked with Elon Musk as part of the founding team at PayPal around 20 years ago and since then has held a variety of roles, primarily at financial institutions. Now, one week into his role, Bhargava has told the Economic Times that his initial goal was to enter discussions with India’s telcos, banks, hospitals, academic institutions…read more on TotalTele.com »
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KDDI picks Starlink cellular backhaul to deliver broadband internet services to rural mobile customers
2021-09-13 04:02:00| Telecompaper Headlines
(Telecompaper) Japanese operator KDDI has selected SpaceX's Starlink as its network backhaul provider...
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Is SpaceXs Starlink constellation on a collision course?
2021-08-20 02:00:00| Total Telecom industry news
Since man first began launching objects into space back in the 1950s, orbit debris has been a growing issue. According to the US Department of Defense, 27,000 objects are currently tracked by their global Space Surveillance Network, with much more debris too small to be tracked but still large enough to cause potentially disastrous collisions. With satellite broadband connectivity seeing a resurgence of interest in recent years, the issue of space debris could soon grow to unprecedented levels…read more on TotalTele.com »
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Ookla: Average Starlink speeds faster than existing UK broadband
2021-08-05 02:00:00| Total Telecom industry news
Just how viable is Starlink’s satellite communications offering for UK customers? The answer to this question is a complicated one, but a recent report from Ookla suggests that the initial results of SpaceX’s low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite constellation are promising. Using Speedtest data from Q2 2021, the Ookla report showed that the average download speed via Starlink satellite was 108.30Mbps, more than double the UK fixed broadband average of 50…read more on TotalTele.com »
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Starlink starts LatAm rollout in Chile
2021-07-07 02:00:00| Total Telecom industry news
For many years, satellite broadband connectivity was considered something of a novelty by the global telecoms community, if not simply an outright failure. The expense of launching numerous satellites into orbit, coupled with the relatively poor service they could deliver to customers, meant that these solutions were widely overlooked in favour of alternative infrastructure deployments, even in the most hard-to-reach areas. Now…read more on TotalTele.com »
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