The internet has changed incredibly fast since I first started in the industry. 35 years ago, people were carrying around portable telephones with a 12v battery in their bags. 27 years ago, the first commercially available colour TV was available at an affordable price for families. Skip forward to today and suddenly we are able to use a constellation of satellites which are thousands of kilometres above us to send and receive data quicker than anything currently available to us on the planet.
This is the technology I find myself talking about today – Starlink. When we first started exploring Starlink, we were looking for a solution that met our needs as conservationists. We don’t have offices on the high street, we don’t have a shop that is easily accessible, we’re in the middle of a field, in a quarry, in a forest, where standard services are not available.