Don Joyce, a Nokia director working from home at a remote lakeside cottage in Canada, recently abandoned his painfully slow phone-line internet in favor of satellite broadband service Starlink, offered by Elon Musk's SpaceX.
Starlink, which cost him 600 Canadian dollars ($486) for hardware and a lofty CA$150 monthly subscription, provides "blindingly fast" speeds when uploading videos or streaming movies, he said.
But the beta test customer said he experiences dropouts during calls on Microsoft Teams and Zoom.
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