Back in December 2022, KDDI announced that the first mobile tower in Japan to use Starlink has started commercial operation in Hatsushima, a remote island in Sagami Bay. The press release said:
Starting with this location, KDDI will expand its coverage to 1,200 remote towers in order to pursue its vision to bring an urban mobile experience to its rural customers.
「この地球上から、つながらない場所をなくす。」
— KDDI公式 (@official_kddi) December 1, 2022
日本には、山や離島など電波の届かない地域がまだまだあります。
KDDIはエリアを広げ、さらに宇宙ともつながっていくことで、
もっとすみずみまで電波を届けていきます📶
～衛星ブロードバンド Starlink～ pic.twitter.com/2epZYNnbEn
Developed by SpaceX, Starlink provides high-speed, low-latency satellite broadband internet around the world. With satellites positioned in low-Earth orbit at an altitude of 550 km, over 65 times closer than conventional geostationary satellites, Starlink achieves significantly lower latency and higher transmission speeds for its end users. Using Starlink to backhaul service from these remote stations complements KDDI's urban towers that utilize fiber for backhaul.
【速報】
— 電波やくざ (@denpa893) November 20, 2022
日本に数拠点ある
SpaceX社のStarlinkの地球局ゲートウェイアンテナを見てきた
思った以上にデカい
既に稼働してる模様で衛星へのアップリンク漏れ電波も観測できた pic.twitter.com/mT2mWg8yNq
KDDI has been conducting technical demonstrations of Starlink including for use in mobile backhaul since 2021. In order to ensure sufficient quality for cellular service with voice and data, Starlink has met the company's network technical guidelines in latency, jitters and uplink/downlink bandwidths. KDDI has completed its evaluation of Starlink and confirmed the conformance in customer experience that could be comparable to that of optical fiber.
KDDI will also offer Starlink Business to enterprise and civil government customers this year. With Japan having more than 16,000 mountains and 6,000 islands, with Starlink KDDI is now able to bring a new dimension of connectivity to Japanese society.
The video of the launch ceremony is embedded below:
In addition to the image from KDDI press release, additional images from Twitter here and here.
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