Amazon gets FCC approval to test antennas for satellite broadband service

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Amazon.com Inc. on Wednesday gained approval to test prototype antennas for its Project Kuiper, according to documents filed by the Federal Communications Commission.

Project Kuiper is Amazon's plan to launch a constellation of low Earth orbit satellites to provide global broadband service — which would be powered by the company's cloud computing division, Amazon Web Services. Amazon said the Kuiper system would benefit "tens of millions of unserved and underserved consumers and businesses."

The approval from the FCC answered a request from Amazon in August in which it asked to start testing antennas at the Project Kuiper labs in Redmond. The company also revealed the location of its Project Kuiper labs through the coordinates it said the antennas would be operating from.

The Business Journal reported through unnamed sources in January 2020 that Amazon's satellite division would be headquartered in the Redmond Commerce Center, two buildings at 18340 and 18460 NE 76th St., which the filing confirmed.

https://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/news/2021/09/02/amazon-fcc-project-kuiper-redmond-satellites.html

[PortTack]

1. The cost is still prohibitive for many, approx $99 a month

[jimfields33]

2. 99 a month? I pay 203 a month now.

[iemanja]

12. I pay $57 for 300 mgs

US Internet

[jimfields33]

13. Nice! That is awesome!

[PortTack]

14. I know, I pay a lot more than $99 a month too. But this suppose to help the poor? No way

Many don’t have $99 for food a month

[jimfields33]

16. That's true. I hope they would lower the cost for those who need it

I have to give Comcast a little credit. They do provide internet to those needing it for ten dollars a month.

[drray23]

3. not for satellite internet.

I pay 180 a month for a mediocre sat connection. that's all that is available where we live.

[mwooldri]

6. T-Mobile not made its way to you?

They're doing home Internet - my in laws have HughesNet now and are dissatisfied.

[drray23]

7. no cell connection better than one bar nt.

[AndyS]

5. Mine's $80.

There's no service outside major metro areas. 3 options and they're all magically $80.

40 miles away I got 200 mbps for half that and great customer service.

[underpants]

4. You all know when Bezos finishes his space station...

He’s going to threaten to trigger a system meltdown and/or turn his weaponized fleet of drones on us. He takes his phone and says “Rosebud” into it and 💥

Just you watch.

I’m kidding of course. It’s a running joke with me and a coworker.

[intheflow]

8. This headline is both intriguing and terrifying.

Like, Big Brother has all the coolest tech - and it could use it for good!




And, Big Brother will instead use it to exploit us, to spy on us collectively and individually, and collect data on us to better target market to us.

[sarcasmo]

11. More choices will benefit us but at what cost? Terrifying is right.

[Red Mountain]

9. Bezos has plans

I'm paying $99 a month for the best internet I've ever had (or can get where I live) right now.

Starlink.

[Shanti Shanti Shanti]

10. We want drone deliveries in 24hrs too! Space the new frontier, matter transporters, even better!

[Buns_of_Fire]

15. Who's going to launch the space traffic signals to keep

all these new satellites from running into each other?