Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai on Wednesday proposed that his agency approve a SpaceX application to provide broadband services in the U.S. and globally using satellite technologies. The aerospace company, owned by Tesla Inc. Chief Executive and founder Elon Musk, is planning to launch a rocket over the weekend to test plans to offer satellite-based broadband internet. “To bridge America’s digital divide, we’ll have to use innovative technologies,” Chairman Pai said in a statement. “SpaceX’s application — along with those of other satellite companies seeking licenses or access to the U.S. market for non-geostationary satellite orbit systems — involves one such innovation.” He went on to say that the technology could help reach rural Americans and those in hard-to-reach places, and if the rest of the commission votes to approve the application, it would be the first approval given to an American-based company providing broadband services using new generation of orbit satellite technologies.
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