Rural families who lack broadband can finally get high-speed internet access thanks to the recent rollout of satellite internet service Starlink.
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Door County, Wisconsin, is among the areas that have become public beta test sites for Starlink. Starlink claims it will have “nearly global coverage of the populated world by 2021,” according to its website. The service is desperately needed in more remote areas, experts say.
“There are many rural areas in the U.S. where installing extensive wired infrastructure doesn’t make logistical sense,” Tyler Cooper, editor in chief of BroadbandNow, an internet service comparison site, said in an email interview. “Starlink and other low-Earth orbit broadband initiatives will play a critical role in these communities because they don’t rely on an existing infrastructure backbone to function.”
Starlink is a satellite internet network being built by Elon Musk’s SpaceX, intended to provide satellite internet access. The constellation will consist of thousands of mass-produced satellites and will provide high-speed access to areas around the world.