Rural and regional Australia may soon have high-speed internet after Elon Musk’s newest venture, Starlink Beta—the early stages of SpaceX’s satellite broadband program—came online in Australia, providing select remote and regional parts of the country with access to its high-speed satellite internet. The service, currently in beta testing mode, is only available in rural areas of central Victoria and the southern tablelands region of New South Wales. However, the service looks set to become more widely available to other parts of Australia in mid to late 2021. Satellite broadband is not new to Australia, with the technology first being launched in 2015-2016 and being used mainly to provide internet to remote regions that have difficult or no access to standard cables as part of the National Broadband Network (NBN), Australia’s project for the rollout of fibre optic cables. It currently boasts a market of over 100,000 active customers who use services like …