Hello, It’s common practice here in Ukraine since May 2022. A lot of fiber optics channels and cell tower were damaged during the invasion. Local operators used Starlink as the only available channel.
> On 1 Dec 2022, at 20:46, Daniel AJ Sokolov via Starlink > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello, > > Are you aware of any cellular towers that use Starlink as their only > connection? > > Telegeography reports about the first such cellular tower in Japan: > > KDDI (au) has announced that its first mobile tower using SpaceX’s Starlink > high speed, low-latency satellite broadband internet solution has started > commercial operation in Hatsushima, a remote island in Sagami Bay. Launched > today (1 December), the new service ultimately aims to deliver an advanced > mobile service to people living in remote and rural areas, through the > deployment of up to 1,200 Starlink-powered mobile towers. > > Now I wonder if they are the first to do this commercially, or if other > operators have done it already. > > Cheers > Daniel > _______________________________________________ > Starlink mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/starlink _______________________________________________ Starlink mailing list [email protected] https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/starlink
