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China’s milestone in polar region satellite broadband narrows gap with Elon Musk’s Starlink

· By Ben Jiang
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China’s recent milestone in extending its home-grown satellite internet coverage to polar regions has given the country “fully self-controlled polar communications”, ending its long-time reliance on foreign technology to achieve the same capability, according to state media and industry experts. The breakthrough cam…

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