Europe Has Few Good Options to Replace Musk's Starlink
Welcome to Tech In Depth, our revamped daily newsletter with reporting and analysis about the business of tech from Bloomberg's journalists around the world. Today, Jillian Deutsch reports on the dilemma facing Europe over concerns that Elon Musk might pull back on the Starlink satellite communications service.
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