Satellite internet poised for big bang of growth in Southeast Asia

SpaceX, local telecoms and startups rush to enter archipelagic region

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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.

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