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Satellite Internet News 21 June 2025 - 11 August 2025

The Truth About Internet Access in Slovakia: How Fast, How Cheap, and Is Satellite the Future?

The Truth About Internet Access in Slovakia: How Fast, How Cheap, and Is Satellite the Future?

FTTH/B fiber is the dominant fixed broadband in Slovakia, delivering up to 1 Gbps download and hundreds of Mbps upload, with typical latency 5–20 ms, and by 2022 about 66.8% of households were covered by FTTP, with gigabit targets by 2030. DSL remains in use where fiber is not available, offering ADSL up to 8–20 Mbps and VDSL up to 50–100 Mbps, and as of late 2023 about 53% of households had ADSL/VDSL access. Cable Internet via DOCSIS 3.1 (UPC/Vodafone) provides up to 500–1000 Mbps down and 50–100 Mbps up with 10–30 ms latency, and about 17.9% of households are
11 August 2025
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Beyond Starlink: Inside the New Space Race for Satellite Internet Dominance in 2025

Beyond Starlink: Inside the New Space Race for Satellite Internet Dominance in 2025

By 2025 Starlink had surpassed 8,000 satellites launched and served over 5 million users in 125+ countries, operating at about 550 km altitude with speeds of 50–200 Mbps and latencies of 20–40 ms. Ama zon’s Project Kuiper began launching its 3,236-satellite Ka-band LEO network, with its first 27 satellites launched in April 2025 on an Atlas V, and over 78 deployed by mid-2025; the FCC target requires 1,618 satellites (half the constellation) by July 2026. OneWeb, after merging with Europe’s Eutelsat in 2023 to form Eutelsat OneWeb, had roughly 634–650 satellites in orbit in 2024 and focuses on enterprise, aviation,
1 August 2025
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Starlink Coverage in 2025: Full Global Map, Reviews, and What’s Coming Next

Starlink Coverage in 2025: Full Global Map, Reviews, and What’s Coming Next

By early 2025, Starlink was available in over 100 countries across every inhabited continent. In the past year, Starlink launched in 42 new countries and territories and surpassed 6 million active customers worldwide. In the United States, the standard Starlink plan costs about $90 per month with a $599 equipment kit. SpaceX added about 2,300 satellites in the past year, bringing the total in orbit to over 7,000. By early 2025, Starlink was adding about 5 terabits per second of capacity per week to the constellation. Starlink typically delivers 50–200 Mbps download speeds, with the US median peak around 200
25 July 2025
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SpaceX Wins $81.6 Million U.S. Space Force Deal to Launch WSF-M2 Weather Satellite in 2027

SpaceX’s Action-Packed 48 Hours: Starlink Outage Shakes Users, Satellite Phone Service Debuts, Launch & Starship Updates

From July 24 to July 25, 2025, Starlink endured one of its largest outages, knocking tens of thousands offline with more than 60,000 outage reports before service largely returned in about 2.5 hours. Starlink’s outage was attributed by VP of Engineering Michael Nicolls to a failure of key internal software services that operate the core network, and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk publicly apologized on X. Starlink now serves over 6 million users across roughly 140 countries. On July 24, 2025, T-Mobile launched T-Satellite, a satellite-to-cell texting service, after a six‑month beta with nearly 2 million participants and up to 30,000
25 July 2025
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Inside Vanuatu’s Digital Leap: How Satellite Internet Is Transforming Island Connectivity

Inside Vanuatu’s Digital Leap: How Satellite Internet Is Transforming Island Connectivity

Vanuatu is a Y-shaped archipelago of roughly 80 islands with a population of about 330,000, of which nearly 74% live in rural areas. A 7.3-magnitude earthquake in late 2024 severed Vanuatu’s sole international submarine cable, the Interchange Cable Network (ICN1), causing a nationwide internet outage. The ICN1 is a 1,280 Gbit/s submarine fiber cable connecting Port Vila to Suva, Fiji, and its 2014 launch expanded national bandwidth by more than 200x. A second international cable, SMART TamTam, is under development to link New Caledonia to Vanuatu and is expected online around 2025, providing redundancy and climate-sensor capabilities. Since the 2014
24 July 2025
Free Satellite Internet: Myth or Reality? The Cheapest Options Revealed

Free Satellite Internet: Myth or Reality? The Cheapest Options Revealed

In 2018, LinkSure announced plans for a 272-satellite constellation to provide free global Wi-Fi by 2026. Quika offered a mostly free satellite broadband in parts of the Middle East and Africa, delivering about 3 Mbps down/1 Mbps up, but installation and a hardware deposit were still required. There is currently no genuinely free satellite internet for consumers; all major providers require paid subscriptions and specialized equipment because satellites and ground infrastructure cost millions. Amazon’s Project Kuiper aims for affordable service and is expected to start in late 2025. In emergencies, SpaceX Starlink has provided free service and terminals in Ukraine
23 July 2025
Satellite Internet Revolution: How SpaceX Starlink and Rivals Are Connecting the World from Space (2025–2030 Outlook)

Satellite Internet Revolution: How SpaceX Starlink and Rivals Are Connecting the World from Space (2025–2030 Outlook)

As of mid-2025, SpaceX Starlink has deployed over 7,600 satellites—about 65% of all active satellites—reaching 4+ million subscribers by late 2024 and 5+ million by mid-2025 across more than 125 countries. Starlink offers 50–200+ Mbps speeds with 20–40 ms latency, using a flat phased-array user terminal nicknamed “Dishy McFlatface” and laser-linked satellites to extend polar and ocean coverage. OneWeb, now called Eutelsat OneWeb after a 2023 merger, operates roughly 634 satellites as of mid-2023 and completed its Gen-1 network in 2023, with Gen-2 satellites (about 100) on order for 2026. Amazon’s Project Kuiper plans 3,236 satellites, had 78 production satellites
16 July 2025
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Global Satellite Internet Showdown: Starlink vs Viasat vs OneWeb vs Kuiper – Which One Will Connect the World?

Global Satellite Internet Showdown: Starlink vs Viasat vs OneWeb vs Kuiper – Which One Will Connect the World?

Starlink’s residential service delivers about 100–250 Mbps down and 10–20 Mbps up, with latency around 20–50 ms and a median near 45 ms as of mid‑2025. Starlink pricing is typically around $120 per month for standard residential service, with a $80 Lite tier in some regions, and it offers month‑to‑month service with a 30‑day trial. Starlink operates in more than 50 countries globally and had over 3 million customers in nearly 100 countries by late 2024, reaching remote regions from the Arctic to the Amazon. Starlink’s second‑generation satellites (V2) can handle roughly 80–100 Gbps per satellite, with a goal to
9 July 2025
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Connected Deserts: The Digital Landscape of Internet Access in Oman (Including Satellite Internet)

Connected Deserts: The Digital Landscape of Internet Access in Oman (Including Satellite Internet)

As of January 2024, Oman had 4.58 million internet users, representing 97.8% of the population. Median mobile data speed was 71.3 Mbps and fixed broadband speed 68.4 Mbps in January 2024. By end-2024, about 90% of housing units had fiber or high-speed broadband availability. Omantel held roughly 48% of mobile subscribers in 2024, Ooredoo about 45–50%, and Vodafone Oman around 10%. 5G deployment grew 19% in 2024, with Omantel achieving an average 5G download speed of 233 Mbps. In March 2025, the TRA licensed Starlink, making it widely available with residential plans around 30 OMR per month and 80–160 OMR
4 July 2025
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Jeff Bezos vs. Elon Musk: How Amazon’s New Kuiper Satellites Could Disrupt a $100 Billion Space‑Internet Gold Rush

Jeff Bezos vs. Elon Musk: How Amazon’s New Kuiper Satellites Could Disrupt a $100 Billion Space‑Internet Gold Rush

On 23 June 2025, a United Launch Alliance Atlas V launched 27 Kuiper satellites from Cape Canaveral into a 450 km parking orbit, bringing Amazon’s on‑orbit Kuiper fleet to 54 operational satellites plus two de‑orbiting prototypes. The Atlas V mission is the second of eight Kuiper flights on that rocket, with ULA set to fly 44 Kuiper missions in total (6 more Atlas V plus 38 Vulcan), delivering more than half of the 3,236-satellite constellation. Amazon’s 172,000 ft² Kirkland, WA factory can mass‑produce up to five Kuiper satellites per day, reducing individual test times from months to days. Amazon has
23 June 2025
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Space‑Laser Shockwave: Inside China’s 2‑Watt Orbital Beam That Claims to Outgun Starlink and Reshape the Security Balance in Space

China’s ‘Night‑Light’ Laser Satellite Leaves Starlink in the Dust—What It Means for the Future of Space Internet and Warfare

On 17 June 2025, Prof. Wu Jian of Peking University and Dr. Liu Chao of the Chinese Academy of Sciences down-linked 1 Gbps from an unnamed GEO satellite 36,705 km above Earth using a 2-watt laser. The AO‑MDR method combines 357 micro-mirrors on a 1.8 m telescope to reshape the wavefront and eight spatial modes, with a path-picking algorithm selecting the three cleanest channels and boosting usable signal probability from 72% to 91% in heavy turbulence. The Chinese GEO demo delivered 1 Gbps, about five times the throughput of typical Starlink down-links (100–300 Mbps, peaks ~600 Mbps) from 550 km
23 June 2025
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Internet Access in France: From Fiber to Satellite and Everything In Between

Internet Access in France: From Fiber to Satellite and Everything In Between

By end-2024, fiber coverage reached about 91% of premises in metropolitan France, passing over 40.6 million homes and offices, with roughly 4 million still awaiting coverage. Fiber accounts for about 75% of all internet subscriptions in France. Plan France Très Haut Débit (PFTHD), launched in 2013, aimed to cover 100% of the country with at least 30 Mbps by 2022, later extended to 2025, using 55% private investment zones and 45% public initiative zones with total costs around €20–€30 billion and about €13–€14 billion in public funding (central government €3.3 billion). By end-2024, 5.8 million DSL lines remained active (about
21 June 2025
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Stock Market Today

BAT share price closes near 52-week high as buyback rolls on ahead of results week

BAT share price closes near 52-week high as buyback rolls on ahead of results week

7 February 2026
London, Feb 7, 2026, 08:12 GMT — Market closed. British American Tobacco shares closed up 1.2% at 4,609 pence on Friday, within touching distance of a 52-week high, after trading between 4,543 and 4,615 pence. The London market is shut for the weekend and reopens on Monday. (Investing.com) The move comes days before BAT’s full-year numbers, a set piece for a stock that trades as much on guidance and cash returns as it does on day-to-day headlines. The company said it will publish preliminary results for the year ended Dec. 31, 2025 on Thursday, Feb. 12, followed by a webcast
Anglo American share price slips as BofA turns neutral after copper outlook cut

Anglo American share price slips as BofA turns neutral after copper outlook cut

7 February 2026
Anglo American shares closed down 0.75% at 3,435 pence Friday after BofA Global Research downgraded the miner to “neutral” and raised its price target to 3,600 pence. Anglo cut its 2026 copper production guidance and warned of continued weakness at De Beers. The company expects $200 million in charges tied to its Chile copper operations in the second half of 2025.
Amazon’s $200B AI Spending Jolt Spurs Stock Selloff as Big Tech Capex Nears $650B

Amazon’s $200B AI Spending Jolt Spurs Stock Selloff as Big Tech Capex Nears $650B

7 February 2026
Amazon shares fell Friday after the company announced a $200 billion AI infrastructure plan for 2026, exceeding analyst expectations and reviving investor concerns about profitability. Combined 2026 capex flagged by Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft, and Meta now tops $630 billion. Nvidia, AMD, and Broadcom shares surged on the news, while software and data firms remained under pressure.
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