2023-05-05
“Just in: Major satellite companies in Europe are teaming up to develop a competitor to #Starlink. Could this be the start of a new era in satellite internet? Read more: https://arstechnica.com/... #satelliteinternet #internetcompetition” #innovation #technews 📷 Theirry Manasse https://twitter.com/...
Ars Technica
Airbus, Eutelsat, SES, Thales, and other European satellite companies plan to bid for the IRIS² satellite constellation, hoping to rival SpaceX's Starlink
The bid includes large players such as Airbus Defence and Space, Eutelsat, and SES. — A consortium of nearly every major …
2020-04-09
“Far from bringing networks to their knees, covid-19 is driving the most rapid expansion in years.” The internet is doing fine. Some interesting mapping of the increase in activity outside of cities (green) and decrease in cities (red). https://www.technologyreview.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
MIT Technology Review
The pandemic has companies like Netflix and Equinix expediting network and server upgrades, driving the biggest expansion of internet infrastructure in years
Just like that, our internet connection has become an umbilical to the outside world. We now depend on it to do our jobs, to go to school, and to see other people.