The Globe and Mail reports in its Monday edition that last week on Florida's Space Coast, an Atlas V rocket ship rose from Cape Canaveral with a payload of more than two dozen satellites. The Globe's Gus Carlson writes that at an initial $17-billion (U.S.) cost, it was Amazon founder Jeff Bezos's first competitive strike against StarLink, the global communications and Internet network owned by Elon Musk. Eventually, Mr. Bezos's Project Kuiper will deploy more than 3,000 low-Earth-orbit satellites that, like StarLink's network, will continue to revolutionize Internet communications, especially in remote areas of the world not served by current cable-based Internet systems. Many people are cheering for Mr. Bezos because of backlash against Mr. Musk's far-right politics. However, no one should be cancelling their StarLink subscriptions yet. Mr. Bezos has a long way to go to catch up. Mr. Musk's StarLink already has thousands of satellites in operation and nearly five million customers worldwide. The quality and reliability of the StarLink service has been remarkably good. Mr. Musk is not sitting idly by, waiting for Mr. Bezos to catch up. He continues to invest in newer technology to improve and expand the StarLink system.
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