In rural Alaska’s Starlink revolution, new opportunities abound and flagship telecoms see cause for competition

The availability of high-speed internet from Starlink satellites has, by most accounts, been revolutionary in rural parts of Alaska. Elders in villages can have face-to-face conversations with their grandkids living far away. The owners of broken-down snowmachines are able to watch videos showing how to fix them. A search-and-rescue crew even used Starlink to see social media posts that helped them find teenagers lost in a snowstorm.

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