SpaceX’s Starlink satellite Internet service is now officially going mobile after the FCC [Federal Communications Commission] authorized the company to provide its Wi-Fi services to vehicles on Thursday. Currently, the company already provides startling home Internet, which officially left Beta in October last year.

In the authorization letter by the FCC, they wrote, “We agree with SpaceX… that the public interest would benefit by granting with conditions their applications. Authorizing a new class of terminals for SpaceX’s satellite system will expand the range of broadband capabilities to meet the growing user demands that now require connectivity while on the move, whether driving an RV across the country, moving a freighter from Europe to a U.S. port or while on a domestic or international flight.”
Although even before the FCC made this decision, the company had already started testing its terrestrial footprint as they started to install dishes at Tesla Supercharger stations, Raising their prices and unveiling a $500/month premium service tier. SpaceX, the parent company of Starlink has also partnered up with Delta and Hawaiian Airlines to offer the service aboard their aircraft.

SpaceX and Elon Musk, the CEO of the company, has also played a very major role in helping to provide an Internet bridge to volcano-devastated Tonga and providing Starlink terminals to the Ukraine government.
