The European Union has signed a €10.6 billion contract with a consortium to develop a domestic rival to Elon Musk's Starlink by 2030.
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SpaceX posted the latest achievement of its space-powered internet and teased 8Gbps download speeds for a mobile gateway tech. It's exploring fiber-like speeds for offshore remote locations.
The satellite internet service Starlink has crossed the 1.5 million customers mark, SpaceX said. This comes almost two and a half years after the service was first offered to the users as a beta.
The Elon Musk-created Starlink satellite internet service has begun inviting some users to try out a new Global Roaming program which will be priced at $200 a month, not including the hardware price.
After SpaceX wrote to the Pentagon asking to fund Starlink in Ukraine and withdrawing the request the next day, the EU fears Elon Musk might wake up one day and cut off Ukraine's internet.
