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      10 days ago

      If the sales pitch sounds familiar, that is because it is. Alongside OneWeb, a European firm, and Thousand Sails and GuoWang, a pair of Chinese satellite services currently under construction, Kuiper is the latest competitor in a fast-growing market for satellite broadband that is dominated by SpaceX’s Starlink. Such services are increasingly attracting the interest not just of private firms, but of governments too.