Amazon is bringing its Starlink alternative to Australia next year

Amazon says it volition connection respective Project Kuiper terminal models, but pricing hasn’t yet been announced.

Amazon’s unproven Project Kuiper satellites volition beryllium enactment to enactment adjacent year, supplying net entree to agrarian Australians. The retail elephantine announced an agreement with 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 geography presents unsocial connectivity challenges that accepted infrastructure often can’t overcome,” Joe Lathan, Project Kuiper’s manager for Australia and New Zealand, said successful the property release. “This concern with NBN Co represents our committedness to solving these challenges done innovation and collaboration.”

This is the archetypal large concern announced for Project Kuiper, Amazon’s effort to instrumentality 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, with 78 satellites launched to date. Amazon’s adjacent motorboat is scheduled for August 7th arsenic it continues to physique a planned constellation of 3,236 satellites.

The NBN Co concern whitethorn not beryllium the archetypal 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, oregon however overmuch the work and user hardware volition cost.