The FCC gave SpaceX the green light to provide high-speed internet via thousands of satellites

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• The Federal Communications Commission approved Elon Musk’s SpaceX plan to build a global broadband network using satellites.
• The proposed system will use 4,425 satellites.
• About 14 million rural Americans and 1.2 million Americans on tribal lands lack mobile broadband even at relatively slow speeds.

The top U.S. telecommunications regulator on Thursday gave formal approval to a plan by Elon Musk’s SpaceX to build a global broadband network using satellites.

“This is the first approval of a U.S.-licensed satellite constellation to provide broadband services using a new generation of low-Earth orbit satellite technologies,” the Federal Communications Commission said in a statement.

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