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Those of you who live in northern US or southern Canada could be some of the first to trial Elon Musk’s new internet service, Starlink, which leverages a constellation of satellites to bring broadband access to rural and other hard-to-reach areas. Following a successful deployment of 60 Starlink satellites earlier this week, Musk suggested that public tests would begin “soon.”
“Once these satellites reach their target position, we will be able to roll out a fairly wide public beta in northern US & hopefully southern Canada,” Musk tweeted. “Other countries to follow as soon as we receive regulatory approval.”
We previously learned that Starlink should be fast enough for competitive gaming thanks to early tests, which revealed latency as low as...
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