The billionaire’s Starlink project has been given the all-clear by the communications regulator OfcomElon Musk is poised to compete with the government’s Oneweb satellite broadband service after his Starlink venture was cleared by the UK communications regulator. Ofcom granted the Tesla billionaire a licence in November, months after the government spent £400 million on a minority stake to reboot the failed Oneweb project alongside the Indian company Bharti Global. SponsoredMr Musk, 49, who recently overtook the Amazon founder Jeff Bezos to become the world’s richest man, with a personal fortune of $188 billion, has now been approved to have dishes and receivers in Britain as well as Greece, Germany and Australia. Starlink is already providing a million dishes across rural areas in the US. Mr Musk’s goal is to deliver superfast broadband to internet blackspots by sending

Source: The Times January 11, 2021 00:04 UTC