The future of a universal internet that is available in every location on the planet and affordable to all has a taken giant leap forwards. A cluster of prestigious European technology firms last week confirmed that they will jointly create a new satellite constellation known as Iris2.
If this sounds eerily similar to Elon Musk’s Starlink space broadband service, that’s because it’s designed so that Europe will have its own viable competing Low-Earth-Orbit (LEO) satellite communications service. This can be accessed instantly, even when there is no mobile phone signal in sight.
