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Amazon’s Response to SpaceX Starlink Provides 400Mbps in prototype Stage

Illustration of Amazon's satellite user-terminal antenna.

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Amazon’s rival to SpaceX Starlink is going throughout the prototype-development stage, with all the business declaring yesterday {} “finished initial improvement on the antenna to get our cheap client terminal”

Amazon said its”Ka-band phased-array antenna relies on a new structure capable of producing high-speed, low-latency chip at a form factor that’s smaller and lighter compared to heritage antenna layouts,” and the”model is currently delivering rates up to 400Mbps.” Performance will become better in the future variants, Amazon stated.

Amazon at July obtained Federal Communications Commission consent to establish 3,236 low-Earth orbit tanks. The business says it intends to spend more than 10 billion in its own satellite-broadband branch, which it predicts Project Kuiper.

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