According to an FCC filing on Monday, SpaceX’s satellite internet service Starlink is now serving over 400,000 subscribers around the world. The filing shows how the service is growing rapidly. Just two months ago the company reported service for 250,000 subscribers.
By Investing – Michael Elkins
May 25, 2022
SpaceX has been steadily rolling out access to their Starlink service in 32 countries, including sending thousands of Starlink dishes to Ukraine in an effort to keep the country online during its war with Russia.
An availability map on SpaceX’s Starlink website now shows only a handful of countries where the service is not listed as “coming soon:” Afghanistan, Belarus, Cuba. China, Irán, North Korea, Russia, Syria, and Venezuela.
The FCC filing goes on to note that SpaceX “will connect even more people and places with its next-generation user terminals.” This may mean SpaceX is already working on a third-generation Starlink dish for residential consumers.
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