Elon Musk says Starlink’s satellite internet is probably not for you
SpaceX’s founder says that Starlink’s 1,500 low-orbit satellites aim to provide broadband to the hardest-to-reach people, not the masses.
Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite broadband has raised some ungrounded expectations of broadband liberation, but the SpaceX founder’s onscreen talk at Mobile World Congress (MWC) Barcelona knocked them out of orbit and into a fiery reentry—or it should have, except that hope dies hard among people desperate for better connectivity.