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Amazon buys satellite communications company in push to compete with Starlink

By David Zimmermann
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Amazon moved to buy satellite communications company Globalstar for $10.8 billion on Tuesday in order to compete with Elon Musk’s Starlink service.

The announcement demonstrates how the technology company is committed to increasing its footprint in space, a frontier that Musk has marked with Starlink and SpaceX.

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