How Brexit could help keep a high-speed Arctic internet plan aloft
Come January, the U.K. will likely be left without access to a precise sat-nav system. That could turn out to be good news for internet access in the Arctic.
A broadband-from-space network that was expected to be able to provide reliable, high-speed internet access to the Far North appears to have been rescued after the United Kingdom and the owner of the world’s third-largest mobile network said they would pay $1 billion to bail out the project’s bankrupt owner.
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