Neither Musk nor Bezos will (yet) free you from your mobile operator
This Friday marks 64 years since NASA put the Telstar 1, the first commercial telecommunications satellite, into orbit. Currently, 10,413 Starlink satellites, Elon Musk's company, fly over our heads…
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