Jennifer Johnson
jen-johnson.bsky.social
Jennifer Johnson
@jen-johnson.bsky.social
Columnist covering media and telecoms at Reuters Breakingviews
Important to note that there aren't rival satellite internet providers as yet. The closest (potential) competitor is Amazon's Project Kuiper, so there's no escaping US hegemony here. More on this in a piece I wrote earlier this month:
www.reuters.com/breakingview...
Breakingviews - Why Elon Musk is a headache for broadband bosses
CEOs in the slow-growing, debt-heavy telecom sector are hardly short of problems. Elon Musk is giving them another one. The SpaceX boss’s satellite-internet business, Starlink, is signing up millions of broadband customers worldwide. The big question is whether the X owner and ally of U.S. President Donald Trump is too politically contentious abroad, prompting a regulatory backlash against his company.
www.reuters.com
February 22, 2025 at 11:45 AM