Amazon brings Starlink to Australia next year

The unconfirmed Kuiper Swalers will be operated from Amazon next year, to provide access to the Internet to the Rural Australians. Retailing giant An agreement announced With NBN Co, the NBN Co on Tuesday to provide satellite Internet for more than 300,000 qualified customers throughout the country by mid -2016.

“The vast geography in Australia represents unique communication challenges that cannot be overcome by traditional infrastructure,” said Joe Lathan, director of the Quiber project in Australia and New Zealand, in the press statement. “This partnership with NBN Co represents our commitment to resolving these challenges through innovation and cooperation.”

This is the first major partnership announced for the Kuiper project, which is the Amazon attempt to take the SPACEX Starlink service. While the latter already has more than 8000 satellite in orbit, providing service to more than 100 countries, Project Kuper is I barely out of the gate Compared, with 78 satellites launched so far. The next Amazon is scheduled to be launched on August 7, continuing to build a planned constellation of 3,236 satellites.

However, the NBN Co partnership may not be the first service for the kuper project that is launched. Amazon says it expects to start.Providing the service to customers in late 2025“Although the company has not yet been revealed where it will cost the service and consumer devices.