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How SpaceX teamed up with a small Canadian IT company to bring its Starlink internet service to an indigenous community
How SpaceX teamed up with a small Canadian IT company to bring its Starlink internet service to an indigenous community
Kate DuffyDec 19, 2020, 19:30 IST
FSET delivering SpaceX's Starlink to PikangikumFSET
The first location in
Starlink internet service was Pikangikum, a remote 3,000-person indigenous community in north-western Ontario.
The project was initiated by a Canadian IT company called FSET. The CEO, Dave Brown told Business Insider how he went about contacting SpaceX to get help for the community.
Residents were only receiving 3 megabites per second (Mbps). With Starlink, they're receiving around 130.