Elon Musk will put the Internet in school buses: children will be able to use it for free

According to a Sept. 21 filing with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), SpaceX is pursuing a pilot program to expand satellite internet services to select U.S. school buses. Insider.

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It is currently working with school districts in rural areas of the country to bring SpaceX satellite Internet services to students on buses, turning "travel time into connection time," the FCC said. Elon Musk's company has told the FCC that it will focus the pilot program on bus routes that last more than an hour and are "primarily unavailable to other mobile broadband services."

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“Many of the students who need the most support live many miles from the school. They make long trips to study without communication,” SpaceX said in a statement. Representatives of the company noted that many students from low-income families do not have access to the Internet at home. “No service is better suited than Starlink to bridge this gap,” the company assured.

In the letter, SpaceX called on the FCC to approve federal funding to support Wi-Fi school buses. Earlier this year, FCC Chair Jessica Rosenworth announced a proposal to channel funds from a program designed to equip schools and libraries with Wi-Fi to bring connectivity to school buses.

The SpaceX letter comes just a month after the FCC rejected an $866 million subsidy for Starlink to provide its services to rural communities in the US. The commission said the space enterprise "failed to demonstrate that providers can deliver the promised services" and called Starlink "a still evolving technology."

SpaceX quickly responded to the agency's decision. The company called the FCC's decision "grossly unfair" and "inconsistent with the evidence" presented by the company in its grant application.

Musk's company just received approval from the FCC to use Starlink for moving vehicles in June. But the service continues to evolve. Last week, SpaceX conducted demonstration flights in a private jet to demonstrate the capabilities of Starlink from a height of 10 km.

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Starlink currently has a user base of over 400 subscribers worldwide. The company has a network of more than 000 satellites in lower orbit. The service is designed to provide high-speed Internet up to 2500 Mbps to customers in rural areas and higher latitudes.

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