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☆ 'The hell with it...': Elon Musk seems to backtrack refusal to fund costly Starlink for Ukraine, but complains 'other companies are getting billions of taxpayer $'
  + stars: | 2022-10-15 | by ( Jordan Hart | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Elon Musk, in a series of tweets, criticized the government and suggested SpaceX will 'keep funding' Starlink. SpaceX had penned a letter to the Pentagon asking for help paying for the satellite internet service in Ukraine, according to a CNN report. "Starlink is losing money" despite other companies "getting billions in taxpayer $," he complained. Starlink is a satellite constellation that provides internet connection to regions without stable telecommunications infrastructure, according to international broadcaster Deutsche Welle. Not long after Russia invaded Ukraine, SpaceX sent thousands of Starlink terminals to Kyiv to allow Ukrainian soldiers and civilians to maintain internet connection.
☆ UK extends deadline to remove Huawei from 5G networks after one carrier warned of outages
  + stars: | 2022-10-13 | by ( Ryan Browne | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +4 min
LONDON — The U.K. government extended a deadline for telecom companies to remove equipment from Chinese tech giant Huawei from their 5G mobile networks. They will still need to ban new Huawei 5G installments and completely eliminate it from their networks by the end of 2027. The order was enshrined in law last year with a piece of legislation called the Telecoms Security Act. Previously, telecoms groups like BT and Vodafone had been told to remove Huawei 5G equipment from their "core" by January 2023. Today I'm using these powers and making it a legal requirement for Huawei to be removed from 5G networks by 2027."
☆ The 'last man' selling floppy-disks says airlines continue to make orders for the ancient storage technology
  + stars: | 2022-09-19 | by ( Travis Clark | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
He says in a new book that the airline industry is one of his biggest customers. "These are people who use floppy disks as a way to get information in and out of a machine. He also said that the medical sector still uses floppy disks. And then there's "hobbyists," who want to "buy ten, 20, or maybe 50 floppy disks." Floppy disks made news recently when Japan's digital minister, Taro Kano, declared "a war" on the devices, tweeting earlier this month that Japan's digital agency would change regulations requiring businesses to use floppy disks and CDs, instead shifting to online services.
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