{"id":105884,"date":"2025-08-24T05:17:31","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T05:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/105884\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T05:17:31","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T05:17:31","slug":"amazon-is-bringing-its-starlink-alternative-to-australia-next-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/105884\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon is bringing its Starlink alternative to Australia next year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Amazon\u2019s unproven Project Kuiper satellites will be put to work next year, supplying internet access to rural Australians. The retail giant <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aboutamazon.com.au\/news\/innovation\/project-kuiper-partners-with-nbn-co-to-bring-low-earth-orbit-satellite-broadband-to-rural-australia\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announced an agreement<\/a> with Australia\u2019s state-owned National Broadband Network Company (NBN Co) on Tuesday to provide satellite internet to more than 300,000 eligible customers across the country by mid-2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">\u201cAustralia\u2019s vast geography presents unique connectivity challenges that traditional infrastructure often can\u2019t overcome,\u201d Joe Lathan, Project Kuiper\u2019s manager for Australia and New Zealand, said in the press release. \u201cThis partnership with NBN Co represents our commitment to solving these challenges through innovation and collaboration.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">This is the first major partnership announced for Project Kuiper, Amazon\u2019s attempt to take on SpaceX\u2019s Starlink service. While the latter already has more than 8,000 satellites in orbit, providing service to more than 100 countries, Project Kuiper is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/657689\/amazon-project-kuiper-satellite-launch\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">barely out of the gate<\/a> by comparison, with 78 satellites launched to date. Amazon\u2019s next launch is scheduled for August 7th as it continues to build a planned constellation of 3,236 satellites.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">The NBN Co partnership may not be the first Project Kuiper service to launch, however. Amazon\u2019s website says it expects to begin \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aboutamazon.com\/news\/innovation-at-amazon\/what-is-amazon-project-kuiper#:~:text=We%20expect%20to%20begin%20delivering%20service%20to%20customers%20in%20late%202025.\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">delivering service to customers in late 2025<\/a>,\u201d though the company hasn\u2019t yet revealed where, or how much the service and consumer hardware will cost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amazon\u2019s unproven Project Kuiper satellites will be put to work next year, supplying internet access to rural Australians.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105885,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[960,174,3,79,193,172,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-105884","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-internet","8":"tag-amazon","9":"tag-internet","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-science","12":"tag-space","13":"tag-tech","14":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}