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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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SpaceX blasted another 52 Starlink internet satellites and 2 payloads into orbit, which landed perfectly May 16, 2021, 12:37 PM
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SpaceX launched another 52 Starlink internet satellites into orbit on Saturday.
Two rideshare payloads were also on board the Falcon 9 first-stage rocket booster.
The launch took place at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 6:56 p.m. EDT.
It was the eighth flight for this particular Falcon 9, which also lifted NASA astronauts, Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley to the International Space Station, last year.
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk plans to eventually have more than 40,000 satellites transmitting internet service for users on Earth. It is working towards a mid-2027 deadline. At present, the Starlink beta service has about 10,000 customers, as Insider reported.