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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Tame podcast

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Speaker 1: from News Talks at.

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Speaker 2: B Darlink is going Mini. Our texpert is Paul Stinhouse.

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Speaker 2: He has all the details on the service that gives

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Speaker 2: Internet to people who might not otherwise have it.

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Speaker 3: What's happening, Paul, Yeah, and it's about to go to

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Speaker 3: places where internet has never been possible. This is actually,

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Speaker 3: I know, we it's easy to hate on Elon Musk

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Speaker 3: and he says that this product will change the world,

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Speaker 3: and it all sounds a bit cliche, but wow, he

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Speaker 3: actually kind of has a point here, Jack, This is cool.

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Speaker 3: This is a pretty big technology breakthrough. So Starlink at

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Speaker 3: the moment, just to set the scene, is it's a

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Speaker 3: satellite dish that kind of looks like a I don't know,

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Speaker 3: like a couple of laptops kind of put together. And

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Speaker 3: then it's got a wireless base station somewhere else.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: This Starlink Mini is basically the size of a MacBook,

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Speaker 3: basically the size of the biggest iPad, and that is it.

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Speaker 3: It's an all in one device. You can point it

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Speaker 3: at the sky and get internet. Now, why will it

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Speaker 3: take you to places and give internet in places? You

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Speaker 3: may not have been able to get it before. This

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Speaker 3: can be powered using basically a portable power pack. Wow,

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Speaker 3: so the thing you use to charge your phone can

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Speaker 3: basically be a slightly more souped up version, but that

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Speaker 3: can basically power your starlink device. You can get Internet

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Speaker 3: wherever you are, and it delivers one hundred megabytes per second.

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Speaker 2: Just phenomenon, one hundred megas of a second as well.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, So that's like we're talking here about like

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Speaker 3: some pretty cool technology that you think about where this

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Speaker 3: could actually be deployed now, right, Like this could be this.

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Speaker 3: I mean the way that they're kind of putting it is,

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Speaker 3: you know, if you have a star ankle ready, you

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Speaker 3: can now get an additional mini and take it on

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Speaker 3: the go with you.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that you actually could think of the.

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Speaker 3: People who have camper vands. Yeah right, I think of

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Speaker 3: you know, like you've got maybe you've got your starlink,

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Speaker 3: I think a few years down the line and starlink

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Speaker 3: at home or whatever, and then you just take your

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Speaker 3: starlink mine with you and you could be camping, you

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Speaker 3: could be wherever. Yeah, and there you are, You've got

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Speaker 3: Internet with you at glisteringly fast speeds. Should point out

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Speaker 3: at the moment only available in the USA as an

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Speaker 3: add on, it is available as a standalone thing in

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Speaker 3: parts of Central and South America, and I'm going to

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Speaker 3: be rolling it up to more countries soon, So keep

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Speaker 3: an eye out for the starlink. Manee.

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Speaker 2: It's funny. I saw like a hot take once on

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Speaker 2: Twitter or x that suggested for all of yeah, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 2: all of his various projects, be at SpaceX, be at Tesla,

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Speaker 2: be it Twitter X, be at the hyper loop everything,

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Speaker 2: for all of the stuff that he's involved with, that

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Speaker 2: this would end up being the thing that actually had

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Speaker 2: the biggest impact by kind of not necessarily democratizing information,

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Speaker 2: but by giving lots of people who would not otherwise

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Speaker 2: have access to the Internet. Internet, he could, you know,

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Speaker 2: change the world in quite profound ways, which is very interesting.

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Speaker 3: Think about this in emergency situations.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that's exactly.

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Speaker 3: You just need you don't need power the grid goes down,

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Speaker 3: and say you can still get folks connected. I think,

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Speaker 3: I mean, the war is marketing, it is one I

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Speaker 3: think of.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, and our soldiers in the battlefield have

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Speaker 2: been using you know, his his starlink so that they

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Speaker 2: can work out where the enemy is and guide their

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Speaker 2: various attacks and things, which is quite.

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Speaker 3: It makes it a bit like a video game.

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Speaker 2: Doesn't worryingly. So yeah, hey, thank you so much, Paul.

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Speaker 2: That is really really interesting to be intriguing.

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