Amazon's entry into the satellite internet market sets up another faceoff between Bezos and Musk

[Zorro]

Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos already compete on satellite launch contracts for their respective rocket companies, SpaceX and Blue Origin.

Soon they will also face off in the potentially lucrative business of providing broadband internet via constellations of hundreds, or even thousands, of tiny satellites.

Last week, Bezos’ Amazon.com Inc. became the latest company to join the race already populated by SpaceX and OneWeb, both of which have launched their first satellites. And those two companies, as well as others, have received approval from the Federal Communications Commission to use spectrum for their constellations.

But while Amazon is the latest to join an already crowded field, analysts say the company’s deep pockets give it a good chance to edge out established competitors.

https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-amazon-satellite-constellation-internet-20190412-story.html

[DetlefK]

1. The sci-fi writer William Gibson predicted this in 1984.

He predicted the internet, internet-forums, hackers and that the internet would consist of servers in orbit around Earth.



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuromancer