Amazon’s internet satellites will be put to work expanding pastoral broadband content. CNBC reports Verizon is teaming with Amazon to ameliorate fixed wireless internet access in pastoral areas in the US. The alliance will originally concentrate on expanding Verizon’s LTE and 5G service using Amazon’s Project Kuiper for”backhaul,” boosting content in areas with little or no high- speed data.

Amazon and Verizon latterly hope to offer unified internet access for diligence worldwide, including smart granges and transportation. For now, they are establishing specialized conditions for pastoral broadband using Project Kuiper antenna tech formerly in development The two did not give a timeline for this satellite- stoked service. Amazon lately lined up rocket launches for Project Kuiper, but it does not anticipate to have half its satellites in low Earth route until 2026. The full constellation is anticipated no latterly than July 2029.

There is an adversary-of-my- adversary aspect to this deal. Amazon and Verizon are contending to contend with SpaceX’s fleetly developing Starlink service — they both threat losing guests if Starlink claims too strong a base, including commercial guests like Google. All the same, Americans might not mind if this brings fast internet access to further corridor of the country. Pastoral internet content is still far from complete, indeed with the FCC investing billions in 5G — this could fill in the gaps without having to wire as much of the country as ahead.