Musk set to tout Starlink progress as cost, demand hurdles linger

Reuters2021-06-29

June 29 (Reuters) - Don Joyce, a Nokia director working from home at a remote lake cottage in Canada, recently abandoned his painfully slow phone-line internet in favor of satellite broadband service ...

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2021-06-29
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2021-06-29
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TBanger
2021-06-29
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$100 a month for internet is a little steep perhaps.
KAHHUAT
2021-06-29
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2021-06-29
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2021-06-29
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