SpaceX Asks FCC To Allow 5 Times More Internet Terminals for Starlink’s Satellites

CNBC reports:
SpaceX said Starlink, its nascent satellite internet service, has already seen “extraordinary demand” from potential customers, with “nearly 700,000 individuals” across the United States indicating they are interested in the company’s coming service. Due to the greater-than-expected interest, SpaceX filed a request with the Federal Communications Commission on Friday — asking to increase the number of authorized user terminals to 5 million from 1 million. User terminals are the devices consumers would use to connect to the company’s satellite internet network… SpaceX is beginning a private beta test of Starlink’s service this summer, which it says will be “followed by public beta testing.” Elon Musk’s company told the FCC that Starlink will begin offering commercial service in the northern United States and southern Canada” before the end of this year, “and then will rapidly expand to near-global coverage of the populated world in 2021….”