Elon Musk describes the future of satellite internet

Starlink intends to connect 500 thousand users to satellite internet in a year. This is reported by the Verge.

Quoting a fragment of the speech of the head of SpaceX Elon Musk (Elon Musk) at the Mobile World Congress conference, journalists noted that the entrepreneur hopes to connect half a million subscribers to satellite internet. "I think we're on track to have a few hundred thousand users, maybe more than 500,000 users within 12 months," Musk said.

Describing the future of the project, the billionaire said that Starlink has already signed a cooperation agreement with two telecom operators from "major countries", but did not specify its details. According to Musk, satellite internet complements existing providers, and does not compete with them. "You have to think of Starlink as a way to fill in the gaps between 5g and fiber and the idea of really getting to the most inaccessible parts of the world," said the head of SpaceX.

At the moment, Starlink is available to users in Test mode, satellite internet costs subscribers 9 99 per month. To establish a connection, the user must purchase a terminal that costs another.500.