Australia's digital frontier is being rewired from fibre rolls and roadside trenches to vast satellite constellations orbiting thousands of kilometres above Earth.

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SpaceX founder Elon Musk may be on the verge of closing regional Australia's mobile blackholes. Picture by Shutterstock.

And the engineers of this revolution are not Australian agencies but US tech titans Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos.

The latest front in the new space race came on Monday, when Musk's SpaceX announced a $25 billion cash-and-stock deal to secure valuable "S-Band" spectrum in the US, as well as its global licen

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