Don Joyce, a Nokia director 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. 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." Early reviews are mixed, with some users complaining of the problems that have always plagued satellite internet: sensitivity to weather. "In most parts of the world, if you said to someone, your broadband service will cost you 100 U.S. dollars a month, they'd be like, incredulous." "Lowering Starlink terminal cost, which may sound rather pedestrian, is actually our most difficult technical challenge," Musk tweeted last year.

Source: Hindustan Times June 29, 2021 07:52 UTC