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AVERY COUNTY â An innovative partnership between Elon Muskâs satellite internet service Starlink and the state of North Carolina is bringing satellite internet service to two rural NC counties through a program that could likely have impacts in Avery, Ashe and Watauga counties in the not too distant future.
The program, known as the Satellite Internet Technologies for Student Connectivity Pilot, will provide students in the Swain County and Hyde County school systems access to Space Exploration Technologies Corporationâs, (SpaceX) Starlink internet service.
Funding for the program was made available through the CARES Act and implementation of the technology will be made possible through the North Carolina Department of Information Technology (NCDIT) and the Friday Institute at NC State University, among other state organizations.
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To be clear: Space X s Starlink low-orbit satellite broadband service won t revolutionize the broadband industry. The service lacks the capacity to service dense urban or suburban areas, meaning it won t pose much of a threat to traditional cable and fiber providers. With a $100 monthly price tag and $500 hardware fee, it s not exactly a miracle cure for the millions of low-income Americans struggling to afford a broadband connection, either.
That said: if you re currently one of the 42 million Americans who lacks access to any broadband at all, the service, capping out at 100 Mbps, is going to be damn-near miraculous (if you can afford it). It s also going to be a major competitive challenge to the companies that not only compete for rural broadband attention (like WISPs, cellular providers, and last-gen satellite providers), but are busy elbowing out one another at the trough to grab a slice of taxpayer subsidies. Understandably, many of thes
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Starry spent $48 million on 24GHz licenses in 2019. Now, the company is working with T-Mobile to test its own equipment for transmissions in that band on the way toward final certification and deployment.