Amazon and Verizon join forces to challenge SpaceX’s satellite internet

The super-villain-style rivalry between Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk could soon be settling into low-Earth orbit. Amazon and Verizon announced a partnership today to expand the wireless carrier’s 4G and 5G networks via Project Kuiper, Amazon’s satellite-internet subsidiary. It’s a mutually beneficial move. If successful, it could allow Jeff Bezos to challenge Elon Musk’s rival (and so far, more successful) Starlink system—while expanding America’s rural broadband access for Verizon, whose...