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Amazon unveils three satellite user terminals, plans broadband service in 2024

Enlarge / Satellite broadband user terminals designed by Amazon’s Project Kuiper. reader comments 60 with Share this story Amazon has designed three satellite broadband user terminals and will start offering Internet service in 2024, the company announced today. The standard terminal, designed for residential and small business customers, is expected to cost Amazon less than… Read More »

Amazon bought Facebook’s satellite team to help build its Starlink competitor

Enlarge / Image released by Amazon when it announced a deal with United Launch Alliance to use launch vehicles for Project Kuiper. reader comments 11 with 10 posters participating Share this story Facebook has sold its small-satellite Internet division to Amazon and said that it has no plans to become an Internet service provider. Amazon and… Read More »

Amazon’s answer to SpaceX Starlink delivers 400Mbps in prototype phase

reader comments 0 with 0 posters participating Share this story Amazon’s competitor to SpaceX Starlink is moving through the prototype-development phase, with the company announcing yesterday that it has “completed initial development on the antenna for our low-cost customer terminal.” Amazon said its “Ka-band phased-array antenna is based on a new architecture capable of delivering… Read More »