TelecommunicationSatellite internet poised for big bang of growth in Southeast Asia
SpaceX, local telecoms and startups rush to enter archipelagic region
A Starlink satellite: SpaceX aims to provide satellite-based internet service in Southeast Asia. (Photo courtesy of SpaceX)
YUICHI SHIGA, Nikkei staff writer
MANILA -- Elon Musk's SpaceX is among the many companies competing to provide satellite-based internet service in Southeast Asia, seeing it as the answer to the slow, unreliable communications the region's vast number of netizens have been putting up with.