Elon Musk fights to rid rural Britain of sluggish broadband in battle with BT
Billionaire's Starlink venture plans to boost internet speeds using thousands of satellites - and the Government wants a slice
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Billionaire's Starlink venture plans to boost internet speeds using thousands of satellites - and the Government wants a slice
Pascal Le Segretain/Getty; Samantha Lee/Insider The first person in the UK to reportedly receive the Starlink kit told Insider how he set it up. Philip Hall said his download speed jumped from 0.5 megabits per second to 85 Mbps with Starlink. The router's range doesn't stretch that far, but Hall said what Musk has done is "transformational." At the end of last month, the UK approved Elon Musk's Starlink internet as the billionaire reaches closer to his goal of covering Earth with up to 42,000 satellites to create a superfast global broadband service. Starlink is availa...
Elon Musk's Starlink plots launch of internet satellites for rural Britain Starlink has secured a licence to deploy its satellite dishes across Britain Starlink satellites captured over Devon Elon Musk is laying the groundwork for an attack on the British broadband market after securing an Ofcom licence to install potentially thousands of satellite dishes across rural Britain. Starlink, the broadband satellite network founded by Mr Musk, received a licence late last year to install user terminals in Britain, an Ofcom spokesman confirmed. The US company has also set up a UK entity, Starlink I...