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SpaceX Plan for Broadband Via Satellite Backed by FCC Chairman
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai on Wednesday called on the agency to approve an application by Elon Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies Corp., known as SpaceX, to provide broadband internet via satellite.
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai on Wednesday called on the agency to approve an application by Elon Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies Corp., known as SpaceX, to provide broadband internet via satellite.
“To bridge America’s digital divide, we’ll have to use innovative technologies,” Pai said in an emailed statement. “Satellite technology can help reach Americans who live in rural or hard-to-serve places where fiber optic cables and cell towers do not reach.”
Pai said he’d asked his four fellow commissioners to support closely held SpaceX’s application, which he said would help “unleash the power of satellite constellations to provide high-speed internet to rural Americans.”
The approval would be the first given to an American-based company to provide broadband services using a new generation of low-Earth orbit satellite technologies, Pai said.
Over the past year, the FCC has approved requests by OneWeb, Space Norway AS, and Telesat Canada to access the U.S. market, the FCC said in a news release.