Britain is to trial using low Earth orbit satellites to provide high-speed internet connections to remote homes and businesses, with the initial sites supported by equipment supplied by Elon Musk’s Starlink system.
December 1, 2022 | 1:31 pmLONDON —
Mr. Musk’s SpaceX rocket company activated Starlink, a largely consumer-based service with hundreds of thousands of internet users, over Ukraine after Russia’s invasion in February. In Britain, an outdoor activity center in the Snowdonia National Park in Wales and a mountain rescue base in the Lake District in northwest England will be among places which will have equipment installed, allowing them to link up to satellites and access broadband 10 times faster than previously available.
“These trials aim to find a solution to the prohibitively high cost of rolling out cables to far-flung locations.”
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