#starlink

#starlink

Elon Musk's Starlink has gained yet another airline customer as the ultra-high-speed WiFi service continues to gain popularity. On the first day of this month's Dubai Airshow, Emirates announced that Starlink will be available for free, starting November 23. Business Insider previously tested Starlink on Qatar Airways' first flight with it last October. The connection speed peaked at 215 megabits per second, more than enough for a lag-free video call, and faster than many cable-based internet services.

Traditionally, sparsely populated areas have not received as much attention from fiber providers as those with greater populations because they simultaneously had less revenue potential and were more expensive to reach and serve. Satellite services can change that. Currently, it says that only 3% of Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Program funding awards are for Starlink and less than 1% are for Amazon Kuiper.

Madory noted recent changes to Starlink's file, which over the years has described an increasing quantity of IP address holdings. According to his analysis, in April 2022 Starlink's geolocation file mentioned 592 /24 IPv4 blocks - each of which covers 256 IP addresses. As of July, Elon Musk's space ISP had 1,379 /24s, plus hundreds of smaller blocks, and therefore over 350,000 IPv4 addresses to play with.

In a statement posted on X, SpaceX's senior vice president of commercial business, Lauren Dreyer, said the company had "proactively identified and disabled over 2,500 Starlink Kits in the vicinity of suspected scam centers" in Myanmar. She added that SpaceX "complies with local laws in all 150+ markets where Starlink is licensed to operate" and takes "appropriate action" when it detects violations of its acceptable use policy or applicable law.

Myanmar's military have closed down an online scamming operation, detaining more than 2000 people, according to state media on Monday. During the raid, which took place near the border with Thailand, dozens of Starlink satellite internet terminals were also seized. Myanmar is notorious for hosting cyberscam operations which have been responsible for taking money from people all over the world through scams which usually involve gaining victims' confidence online with romantic ploys or other ruses.

Kevin Koenig, a journalist at The Wall Street Journal, took a closer look at this curious phenomenon. He spoke to several billionaires who have taken to working in 'floating offices', including Jimmy John Liautaud, the proprietor of the sandwich chain Jimmy John's. Liautaud is something of a workaholic, as he finds time to work whether he is - and that includes any superyacht he happens to be stationed on. And he's not alone.

A powerful bipartisan committee in the US Congress says it has begun an investigation into the involvement of Elon Musk's Starlink satellite business in providing internet access to Myanmar scam centres, blamed for swindling billions from victims across the world. The move comes as it was revealed that large numbers of Starlink dishes began appearing on scam-centre roofs in Myanmar around the time of a crackdown in February that was supposed to eradicate the centres, according to a investigation by Agence France-Presse

The iPhone 17 is Apple's most advanced phone yet, delivering blistering speed with the new A19 chip, a ProMotion Super Retina XDR display that makes every scroll feel fluid, and a camera system designed to rival pro gear. But power is only as good as the signal behind it, and that's where most carriers hit a wall. What sets the iPhone 17 apart on T-Mobile is T-Satellite with Starlink, which gives you an extra layer of coverage where no carrier towers can reach.

The latest report on the global status of 5G non-terrestrial, networks (NTN) and satellite connectivity from the GSA has revealed that satellite connectivity is moving from niche to mainstream, whether in rural broadband or direct-to-cell use cases, with nearly 200 publicly announced operator-satellite partnerships in almost 100 countries and territories - of these, 34 operators have launched commercial services. The Non-terrestrial 5G networks and satellite

Looking to cast doubt on the received wisdom that the future of connectivity is a terrestrial pursuit, especially as its home territory prepares for a new wave of digital transformation, DE-CIX India says it is making history as the country's first internet exchange platform to add Starlink to its interconnection ecosystem. Founded in 1995, DE-CIX offers interconnection services in 60 locations in Europe, Africa, North and South America, the Middle East, and Asia.

After two years at SpaceX, I felt ready to take on new challenges and expand my skill set into a different high-performance environment.

"Service will be restored shortly. Sorry for the outage. SpaceX will remedy root cause to ensure it doesn't happen again."