Amazon is bringing its Starlink alternative to Australia next year

Amazon’s unproven Project Kuiper satellites will beryllium put to activity adjacent year, supplying net entree to agrarian Australians. The unit elephantine announced an agreement pinch Australia’s state-owned National Broadband Network Company (NBN Co) connected Tuesday to supply outer net to much than 300,000 eligible customers crossed the state by mid-2026.

“Australia’s immense surface science presents unsocial connectivity challenges that accepted infrastructure often can’t overcome,” Joe Lathan, Project Kuiper’s head for Australia and New Zealand, said successful the property release. “This business pinch NBN Co represents our committedness to solving these challenges done invention and collaboration.”

This is the first awesome business announced for Project Kuiper, Amazon’s effort to return connected SpaceX’s Starlink service. While the second already has much than 8,000 satellites successful orbit, providing work to much than 100 countries, Project Kuiper is barely retired of the gate by comparison, pinch 78 satellites launched to date. Amazon’s adjacent motorboat is scheduled for August 7th arsenic it continues to build a planned constellation of 3,236 satellites.

The NBN Co business whitethorn not beryllium the first Project Kuiper work to launch, however. Amazon’s website says it expects to statesman “delivering work to customers successful precocious 2025,” though the institution hasn’t yet revealed where, aliases really overmuch the work and user hardware will cost.