Amazon introduced its brand today Amazon Leowhich is called Satellite internet service It will be delivered soon and it will be Available in ArgentinaAnd Colombia, Chile, Ecuador, Peru and Uruguay, with DirecTV Latin America, and in Brazil with Sky.
This is what was hitherto known as Project Kuiperthe company’s satellite Internet platform. Put in his orbit The first batch consists of 27 satellites In April this year, by mid-October it already had more than 150 satellites around the world.
Amazon Leo takes its name from the abbreviation Low Earth Orbit (LEO), because these satellites are relatively close to the Earth’s surface (about 450 kilometers) to reduce latency (the time it takes for a signal to go into space and back) and, like Starlink, offer… High-speed satellite Internet, whether for home, business or government use.
The idea is that in suburban or rural areas where traditional fiber services do not reach, there is the possibility of contracting these antennas (which Amazon will offer in three sizes, depending on the required capacity) and accessing a connection with a similar quality of service.
With Leo, Amazon’s intent is there Competing with StarlinkIt is a satellite Internet network developed by SpaceX and present in Argentina since April of last year. Color fact: Many of Amazon’s satellites already in orbit that will compete with Starlink were flown there by SpaceX.
These 150 Amazon satellites are the first step to forming… A huge constellation of 3,200 satellites located in low Earth orbit At an altitude of 630 km, from there it provides high-speed, low-latency Internet access to users with a compatible antenna.
Leo, like OneWeb and Starlink, is one of the other companies licensed in February 2024 by the government of Javier Milei to provide satellite internet service in our territory. In June of last year, Amazon It partnered with the Werthein Group to start offering satellite internet in Argentina. Vrio Corporation, the Werthein family-controlled owner of DirecTV Latin America, and Project Kuiper have announced an alliance to provide internet connectivity in seven countries in Latin America, including Argentina, which will now be called Amazon LEO.
Amazon is one of several bets on providing Internet access from space; The third in dispute is OneWeba leading European company in this field, faced many economic and logistical problems in operating its constellation of satellites equipped with the Internet (although it It already has 630 satellites in orbit) and that in 2022 it merged with another satellite communications giant, Eutelsat; Since the middle of last year Argentine satellite Internet provider Orbit Its network is used to provide Internet throughout the national territory.
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