Elon Musk's satellites beam internet into remote Chilean fishing hamlet


Diego Guerrero, 7, watches a video on a mobile phone, with the weak internet signal he receives at home in the village of Sotomo, outside the town of Cochamo, Los Lagos region, Chile, August 8, 2021. Picture taken August 8, 2021. Sotomo is one of two places in Chile to be chosen for a pilot project run by billionaire Elon Musk to receive free internet for a year. The signal is received via a satellite dish installed on the school's roof, which transmits through a Wi-Fi device and only works from noon to midnight, because of a constrained supply of diesel to the generator that supplies power to the town. REUTERS/Pablo Sanhueza

SOTOMO, Chile (Reuters) - After half an hour's windswept journey on foot and by boat through a craggy forested estuary to the school he attends in remote southern Chile, Diego Guerrero can finally access the internet.

His school is located in the hamlet of Sotomo, around 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) south of the capital Santiago in the region of Los Lagos and inhabited by just 20 families.

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