Starlink, Outage
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Starlink, owned by Elon Musk, has changed the game in terms of internet accessibility in rural and other underserved areas lacking high-speed broadband infrastructure. It has 2 million US subscribers, and more than 6 million globally.
According to outage detector Downdetector, reports of outages with Starlink began to spike around 3:24 p.m. ET with more than 57,000 reports. The problems continued to arise with a peak of more than 58,000 reports at around 3:39 p.m. ET.
Starlink users lost internet access Thursday as a major outage hit thousands. The company confirmed the disruption on its website and is investigating.
Starlink was experiencing a network outage, Elon Musk's SpaceX-owned satellite internet company said on Thursday, with Downdetector showing that the service was down for thousands of users."Starlink is currently in a network outage and we are actively implementing a solution,