Credit: ESA infographic

There are approximately 17 million people across the United States, and hundreds of millions more globally, who do not have the ability to access terrestrial broadband. While terrestrial broadband coverage is increasing in some places, there remain wide swaths of geography where such service will never come or where choice is extremely limited to older technologies, such as DSL.

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