Hyunjoo JinSupantha Mukherjee
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June 29 (Reuters) - Don Joyce, a Nokia manager working from home at a remote lake cottage in Canada, recently abandoned his painfully slow phone-line internet in favor of satellite broadband service Starlink, offered by Elon Musk s SpaceX.
Starlink, which cost him C$600 dollars (US$486) for hardware and a lofty C$150 monthly subscription, provides blindingly fast speeds when uploading videos or streaming movies, he said.
But the beta test customer said he experiences dropouts during calls on Microsoft Teams and Zoom. If you re in the city and you have alternatives, I wouldn t recommend it. But if you re in the country, like in the middle of nowhere and you re getting pathetic internet service, then it s definitely a competitor.
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