Telco to connect 1,200 remote towers with low-Earth orbit satellite connectivity.
Japanese telco KDDI said on Monday it planned to use SpaceX Starlink as a backhaul provider for connecting 1,200 remote towers. Due to the low-Earth orbit of the satellite, KDDI claimed it would offer “an urban mobile connectivity experience” to those in the country. The backhaul is set to be operational some time in 2022. Starlink currently has an experimental licence in Japan for its ground station installed at KDDI’s Yamaguchi Satellite Communication Center, with both companies involved in conducting tests on the solution.
