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JEFF Bezos has flooded a large hurdle successful his bid to rival Elon Musk's Starlink outer net service.
Billionaires are turning to the skies to beam broadband to people's homes from above.
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The Amazon founder's Project Kuiper rival has received the greenish airy to run an world presumption by the UK watchdog.
"This determination means Kuiper volition beryllium authorised to supply outer connectivity services specified arsenic precocious speed, debased latency broadband to customers successful the UK," regulator Ofcom said.
The determination could boost connectivity, peculiarly successful agrarian areas that endure with mediocre speeds.
And the greater contention could yet bring down costs for outer net services too.
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Expert Paolo Pescatore, from PP Foresight, told The Sun: "Satellite remains the adjacent and past frontier successful connectivity.
"There's a frenzy of enactment astir outer connectivity. This successful stark opposition to a fewer years agone arsenic users switched from outer TV to streaming services.
"Ultimately this is bully quality for consumers to guarantee they are capable to person connectivity successful hard to scope areas.
"It is encouraging to spot a immense of providers starting to get superior astir utilizing outer for the past mile. Ultimately reliable and robust connectivity is inactive highly sought aft among each users."
Elon Musk, 53, has led the mode truthful acold with Starlink which has astir 7,000 satellites present successful Low Earth Orbit (LEO).
The SpaceX-operated work has been utilized by Ukraine to support communications successful the war against Russia.
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Amazon boss Jeff Bezos, 61, has akin abstraction ambitions and the 2 billionaires person been competing over Nasa contracts to fly to Mars.
But wherever outer net is concerned, Bezos' Project Kuiper has truthful acold lagged behind.
No afloat functional Kuiper satellites are successful abstraction yet, lone 2 prototypes.
But Bezos plans to motorboat much than 3,000.
Amazon says the UK volition beryllium among the archetypal countries to person work erstwhile Kuiper is available.
The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has already granted Amazon support to motorboat 3,236 satellites crossed 5 phases - and present Ofcom has granted an world presumption web licence.
Nina Beebe, Kuiper Regulatory Senior Lead, said: "There are inactive excessively galore places successful the UK wherever broadband entree is unreliable oregon wherever it doesn’t beryllium astatine all, and LEO systems similar Project Kuiper tin play an important relation successful helping link those beyond the scope of existing networks."
How does Elon Musk's nett worthy comparison to his Premier League rivals?
By Joshua Jones
ELON MUSK is said to beryllium funny successful buying Liverpool FC.
He's the world's richest antheral - but incredibly, helium WOULDN'T be the wealthiest proprietor successful the Premier League.
Here, we tally down the 10 richest owners, and wherever Musk would slot in…
1. Newcastle United - Saudi Arabia Public Investment Fund - £538bn
Far and distant astatine the apical of the heap is the Saudi Arabia Public Investment Fund. The PIF invests connected behalf of the country's authorities and truthful has astronomical currency reserves, with a latest estimation of astir £538bn.
2. Manchester United - Sir Jim Ratcliffe - £29.7bn
Sir Jim successfully obtained 25 per cent of Manchester United conscionable implicit a twelvemonth ago. The lifelong protagonist made his billions done his petrochemicals institution Ineos, which has delved into athletics to bargain stakes successful Ligue 1 broadside Nice, Lausanne successful Switzerland and F1 squad Mercedes.
3. Manchester City - Sheikh Mansour - £17bn
Sheikh Mansour purchased the nine successful September 2008 and has transformed them into a trophy-winning machine, culminating successful the 2022-23 Treble. Mansour comes from the royal household successful the United Arab Emirates and is some vice president and lawman premier curate of the gulf state.
4. Arsenal - Stan Kroenke - £12bn
Weighing successful 4th is Arsenal brag Stan Kroenke astatine £12bn. The Gunners main made his wealth done existent property development, peculiarly buying centres and flat buildings.
5. Fulham - Shahid Khan - £9.7bn
Like Kroenke, Shahid Khan has plentifulness of involvement successful American sports arsenic the proprietor of NFL broadside Jacksonville Jaguars. He besides co-owns All Elite Wrestling with lad Tony.
6. Aston Villa - Nassef Sawiris - £5.8bn
Nassef Sawiris invested successful Aston Villa successful 2018 pursuing their play-off decision to Fulham. He is the youngest of Egyptian billionaire Onsi Sawiris' 3 sons - with his dada launching the Orascom engineering and operation conglomerate.
7. Crystal Palace - Josh Harris - £5.7bn
Harris whitethorn lone person 18 per cent of Crystal Palace but the American proprietor of Apollo Global Management is simply a big-time player. He has teams successful the NBA, NHL and NFL connected apical of his engagement successful a motorsport racing side.
8. Joe Lewis - Tottenham - £5bn
Joe Lewis archetypal got into concern done helping astatine his dad's London catering institution earlier selling it disconnected and delving into currency trading. He is present worthy astir £5bn and invests successful galore companies, including the ENIC Group, co-owned by Daniel Levy who is worthy £500m, that has afloat possession of Spurs.
9. Chelsea - Todd Boehly - £5bn
Boehly is the look of the caller epoch astatine Stamford Bridge aft fronting the £4.25bn takeover of Chelsea successful May 2022. The American oversaw a staggering £1bn worthy of spending successful conscionable 3 transportation windows successful West London.
10. Liverpool - John Henry - £4.2bn
John W Henry is Liverpool's existent proprietor and heads up the Fenway Sports Group that runs the Merseyside nine arsenic good arsenic the Boston Red Sox. Henry grew up arsenic the lad of soya legume farmers and utilized that expertise to get into concern and went connected to go a multi-billionaire.
NEW ENTRY: Elon Musk - £339bn
The outspoken entrepreneur's nett worthy fluctuates connected the worth of his companies Tesla and SpaceX but he's presently the world's richest man. He besides owns Twitter and much precocious has go a governmental subordinate aft cosying up to President elite Donald Trump. At his existent worth, helium would fertile arsenic the SECOND richest proprietor successful the Premier League.
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