What is Starlink? It is of course owned by Space Exploration Technologies Corp., known to many as SpaceX, founded by Elon Musk, who is widely regarded as a real-life Tony Stark. The website describes Starlink as reliable high-speed internet from space. But what does it mean and how does it do it? The answer to that is not as simple as looking up a website. This was made abundantly clear after Indian entrepreneur Nikhil Kamath’s recent podcast with Musk. The interview was full of interesting anecdotes on life and artificial intelligence, yet one specific segment stood out for its practical clarity: what is Starlink and what it is not.
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For years, Starlink has been surrounded by a mix of hype and confusion. Is it a replacement for 5G? Will it kill traditional broadband?
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