May 23, 2025

🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-05-22

I dive into the emerging gap in LEO satellite broadband services this week.

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📡 🛰️ One story caught my eye this week — the gap in LEO satellite broadband services deployment.

Techmeme: How SpaceX's Starlink moved quickly to solidify its lead in the satellite internet business, as its competitors face production and launch capacity bottlenecks (Financial Times)

From Financial Times. View the full context on Techmeme.

Back in the ancient times of 2018… the satellite broadband services market was only being served by a few seemingly legacy providers.

Techmeme: SpaceX launches first test satellites for its proposed Starlink broadband project, which aims to link up many small satellites to provide reliable internet (Kaleigh Rogers/Motherboard)

By Kaleigh Rogers / Motherboard. View the full context on Techmeme.

Note: Some images via Unsplash

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